Comment by port11

The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Context: 20 years coding, 13-ish of which professional. Using LLMs for side projects, including a very big one. Also using them to help manage our home server.

I’ve used 20-ish agents with OpenRouter, Google’s own AGY, Mistral’s Vibe, and Claude Code. The good ones are good and can be very helpful with spec’ing work or handling repetitive tasks. Except for Opus 4.6, none of them produce TypeScript that I’d be super proud of; but they write stuff that’s good enough compared to what I’ve seen in the industry. It’s always some mix of spaghetti and shortcuts. That’s fine, you steer the model and tighten your specs and tests.

Anyone claiming ‘Model X can one-shot’ an app is delusional about maintainability, deployment, all the little things that grease the wheels. Anyone claiming ‘LLMs are useless’ is probably not being impartial. That’s it.

And any company claiming AI is awesome at everything and will replace everyone? Yeah, they’re lying, at least about their capabilities as of right now.