you're not wrong. there is a part to this that does feel like a devolution of engineering when we're just asking the computer really really nicely to do the thing we want.

on the otherhand, LLMs are a really easy way to get results that are previously fairly difficult. While i was tooking dinner last night I built a tool that turned movie puns like "the podchowski casters" into an actual director, using llms. it wasn't that hard.