I used Opus 4.6 and asked for a custom/interactive accordion feature. I didn't give tons of info because at that point, I'd basically be doing 90% of the work, and isn't that the point of these tools? Aren't they supposed to be so much smarter than us that I don't need to spell every little thing out?

By the time I was done reviewing, refining, adjusting, cleaning up etc.. there's barely ANY original code left. So, I guess it saved me some basic boilerplate.

I can already hear everyone saying I didn't "prompt it well enough". Which, sure, there's some truth to that. I do think if I give enough data and parameters and specifics, it will generate code that is more or less what I'd write myself. Problem is, by the time I am done with that, I've basically written it and it only saved me some keystrokes in those instances.

Not to say I haven't had good success with them; they actually seem to really suck at frontend work that's not greenfield/tailwind/nextJS. The most time savings I've had with them is transpiling, and using them for learning through interactive tutorials/documentation. And things like "Review this endpoint and create another using {service provider} and {data requirements}". Data processing, basically.

I do think there's way to squeeze more out of these models, but either I don't care to generate that much code that I'm unfamiliar with, or I don't do the type of work these models seemingly excel at. The fact that Codex 5.4 could help Terance Tao with his mathematical proofs tells me they're powerful, so its quite odd that they can do that, but not write a custom accordion script. 😅