The other side of this coin are the non-developer stakeholders who Dunning-Kruger themselves into firm conclusions on technical subjects with LLMs. "Well I can code this up in an hour, two max. Why is it taking you ten hours?". I've (anecdotally) even had project sponsors approach me with an LLM's judgement on their working relationship with me as if it were gospel like "It said that we aren't on the same page. We need to get aligned." It gets weird.

These cases are common enough to where it's more systemic than isolated.

Exactly 100%

I read these comments and articles and feel like I am completely disconnected from most people here. Why not use GenAI the way it actually works best: like autocomplete on steroids. You stay the architect, and you have it write code function by function. Don't show up in Claude Code or Codex asking it to "please write me GTA 6 with no mistakes or you go to jail, please."

It feels like a lot of people are using GenAI wrong.