I'm having a blast -- but a lot of the contributing factor to that I think is that I had a long over-due journal full of software projects that I just didn't have the time to get at yet. Some of them were so simple, but time allowances have kept them on the list.

LLMs have let me knock out a few of the ones on The Big List that have been there for years and are now usable tools in my repertoire, and I think that's great. They're not human-quality artisinal code, but so what? It's mine and it works and I can now keep using it and polishing as I proceed.. it wouldn't have been available at all without the LLM assistance.