I am not a professional software engineer but LLMs have showed me how hard software engineering is at the overall level of a system.

For me, it feels like being a magic skilled carpenter with the ability to build a giant building, but with no idea what architects do to make blue prints.

Just end up building a useless mess of wood and nails that eventually gets burned down.

I am actually not impressed by the new o1 at all. I think we might be in denial of how progress is slowing down.