[geodel]

I see it from many sides.

1. A non-web dev creating a personal website for spouse because well, I am the IT/tech guy. 2. At work with side/ productivity projects where manager asked something to be done but not how it is to be done. 3. At work with enterprise project as main role.

So on 1) AI/LLM are amazing. As easy Hugo maybe I can't create a small website on weekend without even using readymade themes. For 2) again it is great I was able to lot of interesting code/scripts for personal automation with Go, Java, duckdb etc. For 3) they are okay mainly because those large IT applications have far too many hard dependencies on legacy backends and services. Generating some fancy wrapper in Node, React or whatever is not going to do much (for me). They do help with bits on API discoveries and usage examples.

Maybe it is my experience bias but all the Java code it throws at me uses old Java 8 APIs even though my projects are setup to use at least Java 21. So I have to constantly nudge it towards using better APIs, whereas for 1) and 2) I'll take what I get.