> It’s like a slightly over-eager junior-mid developer

One with brain damage maybe, I tried out having Claude & Gemini modify a Go program with an absolutely trivial change (change the units displayed in an output type) and it got one of the four lines of code correct (the actual math for the unit conversion) and the rest was incorrect.

In the end, I integrated the helper function it output myself.

SOTA models can generate two or three lines of code accurately at a time and you have to describe them with such specificity that I've usually already done the hard part of the thinking by the time I have a specific enough prompt, that it's easier to just type out the code.

At best they save me looking up a unit conversion formula, which makes them about as useful as a search engine