...but. It does work.
And sometimes it breaks in ways I can't fix - so rolling back or picking a new patch from a know break point becomes important.
16 hours for my first azure pipeline, auto-updates from code to prod, static app including setting up git, vscode, node, azure creds etc. I chose a stack I have never seen at work (mostly see AWS) and I am not a coder. Last code was Pascal in the 1980s.
3rd app took 4 hours.
Built things I have wanted for 30 years.
But yes- no code understanding, brute force.
+1 same for me.
A few times a month I now build something I have wanted in the past but now I can afford the time to build. I have always prided myself at being pretty good at working with other human developers, and now I feel pretty good at using LLM based AI as a design and coding assistant, when it makes sense to not just do all the work myself.
IF you don't have a central security team like in big companies or the need for an audit, what you don't know is what you don't care for.
Obviously until its too late but holy shit i have seen too much garbage just working for waaaay to long.