To be fair, that's what pretty much every person does. The bar does seem pretty high if we need more than that (especially if not specifically trained on a topic). It's not a universally perfect expert servant, but I've been exploring the code generation of GPT4 in detail (i.e. via the 'cataclysm' module I just posted about). In 1 minute it can write functions as good as the average developer intern most of the time.
We're keeping score in a weird way if we're responding quickly with it needing to "code without subtle but important errors". Because that's the majority of human developers, too. I've been writing code for 30 years, and if you put a gun to my head, I would still have subtle but important flaws in every first typing of any complex generated code.
I'm not saying you're bashing it, by the way, I get your point, but I do worry a bit when the first response is citing that the SOTA models get things wrong in 0-shot situations without full context. That's describing all of us.