Ron and I independently ended up doing a similar thing recently - spending a few weeks kicking the tires of various current LLM models for coding.

And we both came to basically the same conclusions. His post is so close to my feelings my thoughts on writing one... yeah, no, I'll just link to Ron's post instead.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/my_dinner_with_ai/

My Dinner With AI

Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry

Grumpy Gamer
@vampiress Completely agree on train wreck points -- ethically, morally, financially, environmentally. I've been a massive sceptic. But having used a bit of Claude on C# and typescript and even terraform over the last couple months -- I'm starting to see why people are saying it's got some use cases.