Absolutely, my experience too. I think the bleeding edge models are very good at “idea infill”. Depending on your subject matter you might only need an idea or

Absolutely, my experience too. I think the bleeding edge models are very good at “idea infill”. Depending on your subject matter you might only need an idea or two per 100loc generated. So much of what I used to do turns out to be grunt work that was simply pattern matching on simple heuristics, but I can churn out 5-10 good ideas per hour it seems, so I’m definitely rate limited on coding. Similar to your comment on architectural experiments, one thing I have been observing is that the critical path doesn’t go 10x faster, but by multiplexing small incidental ideas I can get a lot more done. Eg “it would be nice if we had a new set of integration tests that stub this API in some slightly tedious way, go build that”.