[OtherShrezzing]

While I greatly appreciate all of Simon Willson's publishing, these tools don't meet the criteria of the OP's comment in my opinion. Willson's tools archive all do useful, but ultimately small tasks which mostly fit the "They're okay for one-off scripts or projects you do not intend to maintain" caveat from OP.

Meanwhile, it's not uncommon to see people on HN saying they're orchestrating multiple major feature implementations in parallel. The impression we get here is that Simon Willson's entire `tools` featureset could be implemented in a couple of hours.

I'd appreciate some links to the second set of people. Happy to watch YouTube videos or read more in-depth articles.

[hedgehog]

There's a third category I'd place myself in which is doing day to day work in shipping codebases with some history, using the tools to do a faster and better job of the work I'd do anyway. I think the net result is better code, and ideally on average less of it relative to the functionality because refactors are less expensive.

[tptacek]

Many big systems are comprised of tools that do a good job at solving small tasks, carefully joined. That LLMs are not especially good at that joinery just means that's a part of the building process that stays manual.