Syntactically incorrect code is not much different than an outline or pseudocode. There are way too countless many stories of people successfully accomplishing

Syntactically incorrect code is not much different than an outline or pseudocode. There are way too countless many stories of people successfully accomplishing tasks by getting an llm to give them a starting point or outline or even a complete solution that only needed a few fixups, hardly any different from debugging your own first draft, to say it doesn't or can't work. That's already sailed. The fact that it doesn't produce finished correct code, or even appropriate outline for every single case, doesn't seem especially remarkable or damning to me. It is what it is, it's not what it's not. (I haven't used any myself, but I'm not primarily a coder who is obligated to take advantage of every available tool, and don't like how any of the llm companies are training on open source code without either consent or attribution and then selling that. And don't like how ai and even mere speech to text voice interface before that is being added to everything in general.)