10,000-watt GPU meet 40-watt lump of meat

Dave Rupert:

I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve abandoned at least two projects because the LLM generated more code than I wanted to read. I looked at all the folders of files and said “Meh” and closed my laptop.

I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve done this with code I’ve written myself!

I spent a bunch of time and effort getting it exactly how I wanted, stood back and looked at what it took to get there (and what my maintenance burden would be), and in the face of that I threw it all away.

Multiple times.