Yeah I have similar struggles: I witnessed several multi-month projects that should never have been started. But they would sound cool on paper, and sycophantic LLMs would support any shit-on-a-stick, so they were kicked off, only to be killed months later. Huge boosts in productivity coming from coding agents are often negated by AI psychosis. But is some ways I enjoy it, because instead of being the great equalizer AI turns out to be the great differentiator.

Review tool is an interesting one - I find LLMs to be quite useful for code reviews, but people should really stop associating code reviews with Github/Gitlab and running them as a part of CI. Those platforms were built for humans because reviewing patches over email was a terrible experience. Clankers have no problem with raw patches, in fact they prefer them over fancy web UI. Code hosting platforms are not a good place for agentic code reviews, and they never will be.

Most LLM reviews should only run locally on developer's machine, in your regular coding harness.