I'm curious coming from the other end. I guess I can totally understand certain use cases where I'm generating fairly simple, self contained code in a language

I'm curious coming from the other end. I guess I can totally understand certain use cases where I'm generating fairly simple, self contained code in a language I'm unfamiliar with being good. But surely you must have experienced something where you're literally fighting with the model, where it continuously repeats its mistakes, and fixing a mistake in one place, breaks something else, and you can't seem to escape this loop. You then get desperate, invoking magic phrases like "you think through your problems step by step", or "you are a senior developer", only for it to loose the entire thread of the conversation. Then the worst part is when you finally give up, your mental state of the problem is no better than when you first started off.