In my experience, LLMs have been quite capable of producing code I am satisfied with (though of course it depends on the context — I have much lower standards for one-off tools than long-lived apps). They are able to follow conventions already present in a codebase and produce something passable. Whereas with writing prose, I am almost never happy with the feel of what an LLM produces (worth noting that Sonnet and Opus 4.5’s prose may be moving up from disgusting to tolerable). I think of it as prose being higher-dimensional — for a given goal, often the way to express it in code is pretty obvious, and many developers would do essentially the same thing. Not so for prose.