Counterpoint: I'm on day 26 of an afternoon project I never would have attempted on my own, and I'm going to release it as a major feature.
Cursor & Claude got the boilerplate set up, which was half the mental barrier. Then they acted as thought partners as I tried out various implementations. In the end, I came up with the algorithm to make the thing performant, and now I'm hand-coding all the shader code—but they helped me think through what needed to be done.
My take is: LLMs are best at helping you code at the edge of your capabilities, where you still have enough knowledge to know when they're going wrong. But they'll help you push that edge forward.
Cursor & Claude got the boilerplate set up, which was half the mental barrier. Then they acted as thought partners as I tried out various implementations. In the end, I came up with the algorithm to make the thing performant, and now I'm hand-coding all the shader code—but they helped me think through what needed to be done.
My take is: LLMs are best at helping you code at the edge of your capabilities, where you still have enough knowledge to know when they're going wrong. But they'll help you push that edge forward.