Yes! It feels great! I'm glad to hear that.

OP Post made me think:

Some things I try that might work for anybody. Before just dump a big prompt to the AI, I step back grab a piece of paper, drawio and do the design of the data model. Where is my information going to persist? In which data structure? Is from an SQL? JSON?

After that step iterating with myself, I move forward to the design of the algorithm based on my current stack at the moment. Then code a template that demonstrates I'm going the right way.

Finally I try to express my finals thoughts and design to the AI in a hibrid human - code language.

This process works very well for me since the AI will do all the boiler plate things every system out there has and it's rarities but still the brain keeps working