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The handholding takes time and energy too. The actual task can be infinitely fast if explaining what to do takes longer than doing it.

I haven’t been able to be faster with Qwen than doing it myself. Even with GLM & DS Flash variants it’s not always worth my time.

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For me it has been a very mixed experience. I've had LLMs spit out 2K loc of relatively tricky code that worked the first time out of the gate. It compiled and ran and passed every test I threw at it. I've also seen them deadlocked on trivialities over 100's of toolcalls until I couldn't look at it anymore, stopped the session fixed it myself and continued from there. It's like having an idiot/savant with a weird mix of cleverness and sycophancy thrown in.

Sure. But the results are definitely better with better models.

GLM 5.3, Minimax, Sonnet, etc. I find are definitely worth using. They need handholding and prodding and you have to carefully review the output, but I almost always end up faster than doing it manually.

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