So how do you rectify your anecdotal experience against those made by public figures in the industry who we can all agree are at least pretty good engineers? I think that's important because if we want to stay ~anonymous, neither you nor I can verify the reputation of one another (and therefore, one another's relative master of the "Craft").

Here are some well known names who are now saying they regularly use LLM's for development. For many of these folks, that wasn't true 1-2 years ago:

- Donald Knuth: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/papers/claude-c...

- Linus Torvalds: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/hobby-github-repo-shows-l...

- John Carmack: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1909311174845329874

My point being - some random guy on the internet says LLM's have never been useful for them and they only output garbage vs. some of the best engineers in the field using the same tools, and saying the exact opposite of what you are.