You don't need them to generate anything.

If you need to jump into large, unknown, codebases LLMs are pretty damn good at explaining how they work and where you can find stuff.

A lot faster than clicking through functions in an IDE or doing a desperate "find in project" for something.

And just sticking a stack trace in an LLM assistant, in my opinion, in about 90% of the cases I've encountered will either give you the correct fix immediately or at the very least point you to the correct place to fix things.

I'm not trying to advertise anything here, but i'm telling you i can create apps that feel apple level quality and its not garbage. I built this in 2 weeks I had never known what swift is or anything. I wasn't a coder or app maker, but now I can build something like this in 2 weeks. Let me know if its garbage. I'll love criticism and I'll look for something else if its actually garbage.

If you can't make LLMs do useful work for you today, that's on you.