This. Most people I know that use LLMs to be super productive are like "make me a button, it's red" (hyperbolic statement but you know what I mean). I can do that faster and better myself.
When I'm deeply stuck on something and I think "let's see if an LLM could help here", I try (and actually tried many times) to recruit those prompting gurus around me that swear LLMs solve all their problems... and they consistently fail to help me at all. They cannot solve the problem at all and I'm just sitting there, watching the gurus spend hours prompting in circles until they give up and leave (still thinking LLMs are amazing, of course).
This experience is what makes me extremely suspicious of anyone on the internet claiming they don't write code anymore but refusing to show (don't tell!) -- when actually testing it in real life it has been nothing but disappointment.
When I'm deeply stuck on something and I think "let's see if an LLM could help here", I try (and actually tried many times) to recruit those prompting gurus around me that swear LLMs solve all their problems... and they consistently fail to help me at all. They cannot solve the problem at all and I'm just sitting there, watching the gurus spend hours prompting in circles until they give up and leave (still thinking LLMs are amazing, of course).
This experience is what makes me extremely suspicious of anyone on the internet claiming they don't write code anymore but refusing to show (don't tell!) -- when actually testing it in real life it has been nothing but disappointment.