Grok hasn't gotten better. OpenAI hasn't gotten better. Claude Code with Opus and Sonnet I swear are getting actively worse. Maybe you only use them for toy projects, but attempting to get them to do real work in my real codebase is an exercise in frustration. Yes, I've done meaningful prompting work, and I've set up all the CLAUDE.md files, and then it proceeds to completely ignores everything I said, all of the context I gave, and just craps out something completely useless. It has accomplished a small amount of meaningful work, exactly enough that I think I'm neutral instead of in the negative in terms of work:time if I have just done it all myself.

I get to tell myself that it's worth it because at least I'm "keeping up with the industry" but I honestly just don't get the hype train one bit. Maybe I'm too senior? Maybe the frameworks I use, despite being completely open source and available as training data for every model on the planet are too esoteric?

And then the top post today on the front page is telling me that my problem is that I'm bothering to supervise and that I should be writing an agent framework so that it can spew out the crap in record time..... But I need to know what is absolute garbage and what needs to be reverted. I will admit that my usual pattern has been to try and prompt it into better test coverage/specific feature additions/etc on the nights and weekends, and then I focus my daytime working hours on reviewing what was produced. About half the time I review it and have to heavily clean it up to make it usable, but more often than not, I revert the whole thing and just start on it myself from scratch. I don't see how this counts as "better".