Reading discussions online and comparing them to my own experience makes me feel crazy, because I've found today's LLMs and agents to be seemingly good at everything except writing code. Including everything else in software engineering around code (debugging, reviewing, reading code, brainstorming architecture, etc.) as well as discussing various questions in the humanities and sciences where I'm a dilettante. But whenever I've asked them to generate any substantial amount of code, beyond a few lines to demonstrate usage of some API I'm unfamiliar with, the results have always been terrible and I end up either throwing it out or rewriting almost all of it myself and spending more time than if I'd just written it myself from the start.

It's occurred to me that maybe this just shows that I'm better at writing code and/or worse at everything else than I'd realized.