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I think people look more desperate to hype these LLM toys, that they are not the next blockchain or self-driving car. When they fail it's just excuses like you are not using the latest version or "prompting" them right.

The LLM value add for coding is less than the value add of syntax highlighting in my experience.

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I think it's getting better.

In my experience and it's certainly useful for unit tests speeding things up for me pretty dramatically.

Also when working on a new development language was quick to point out "how you do that" with the inline vars I needed manipulated vs look ups in Google and copy pasting.

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