most engineering tasks don’t require frontier llms
when they get stuck, then i consider moving up to more capable models
purchasing a claude plan seems widely unnecessary to me
the tasks they do better than the average engineer cut both ways: unless you have an existing portfolio of well written and designed work done pre-llms, it looks like you’re producing slop that pretends to be well designed
poor typography choices despite using the mode,
poor layout choices despite using popular CSS frameworks
etc
bad engineers will always be bad engineers
tools don’t make up for it
edit: a follow up to this— everyone is using eyebrows in their layouts and have no fucking clue why it was done to begin with
everyone has a status pill floating above their front page hero display text and its not fucking status related
so gross