But to describe my latest (latest, not only) experience with an LLM: I was with my toddler last night and I wanted to create a quick and dirty timer displayed a

But to describe my latest (latest, not only) experience with an LLM: I was with my toddler last night and I wanted to create a quick and dirty timer displayed as a pizza (slices disappear as timer depletes) to see if that can help motivate him during dinner. HTML, JS, SVG.. thought this would be cake for OpenAI's best free model. I'm a skeptic for sure, but I follow along enough to know there's voodoo to the prompt, so I tried a few different approaches, made sure to keep it minimal beyond the basic reqs. It couldn't do it: first attempt was just the countdown number inside an orange circle; after instruction, the second attempt added segments to the orange circle (no texture/additional SVG elements like pepperoni); after more instruction, it added pepperoni, but now there was a thick border around the entire circle even where slices had vanished. It couldn't figure this one out, with its last attempt just being a pizza that gradually loses toppings. I restarted the session and prompted with some clarifications based on the previous session but it was just a different kind of shit. Despite being a skeptic I'm somewhat intrigued by the idea of agents chipping away at problems and improving code, but I just can't imagine anyone using this for anything serious given how hard it fails at trivial stuff like this. Given that MS guy is talking big game about planning to rewrite significant parts of Windows in Rust using AI, and is not talking about having rewritten significant parts of Windows in Rust using AI, I remain skeptical of anyone saying AI is doing heavy lifting for them.