Comment by socalgal2

I sense similar things to the OP. This feeling of not really thinking through some of the things I would have thought through before

At the same time, at least at the moment, this feels like just another tool. I'm old, started programming in the early 80s. Basic->Asm->C->C++ (perl-python-js-ts-go). Throughout my life things have gotten easier. Drawing an image on my Atari 800 or Apple II was way harder than it is on any PC today in JavaScript with the Canvas API or some library like three.js. Reading files, serialization, data strcutures, I used to have to write all that code by hand. I learned how to parse files, how to deal with endian issues, alignment issues, write portable code, etc but today I can play a video in 3 lines of JavaScript. I'm much happier just writing those 3 lines than writing video encoders/decoders by hand (did that in the 90s) and I'm much happier writing those 3 lines than integrating ffmpeg or some other video library into C++ or Rust or whatever. Similarly in 3D, I'm much happier using three.js or Unreal or Unity than writing yet another engine and 100+ tools.

ATM LLMs feel like just another step. If I'm making a game, I don't want the AI to design the game, but I do want the AI to deal with all the more tedious parts. The problem has been solved before, I don't need to solve it again. I just want to use the existing solution and get to the unique parts that make whatever I'm making special.