If you think this is what LLMs are, then you are a bit behind the times. Opus 4.5 is a huge step up. The previous generation was good for starting basic hobby projects, now we can do pretty big time-consuming changes with it.
I have been extremely skeptical and dismissive of LLMs for a long time, but after a certain level of improvement you have to realize that at least for programming the advantages are substantial.
Well, what would those benefits be? I genuinely don't see what it's useful for.
From what I've seen, people spend an inordinate amount of time typing in "prompts", and the chatbot goes off and pretends to generate some code, and then the people have to work out what's wrong with it and type in another prompt.
So it looks like the humans get to do all the slow, time-consuming drudge work of typing stuff in and debugging the result, but the chatbot does the interesting part.
Why would I voluntarily just do the drudge work?
Okay, that's great. LLMs offer no benefit though.