You sound like me. I've found some good uses for them generating ansible files for example (the output is regularly wrong, even with the latest and greatest model, but easy enough to correct). But otherwise, there always seems to be a cutoff in the complexity of a project where the ROI of just having to have built everything myself, and thus being completely immersed in the codebase, seems like it would have been much greater then prompting something to frankensteinian life.

But most of all, I love the act of programming and cannot imagine myself giving that over to an LLM. "Managing" an LLM is to me a soul crushing - maybe anti-intellectual, but definitely boring - task. And if that is what we as professionals will be required to do in the future, I'll just change profession.