During the weekend I've been fighting with ChatGPT and Claude in order to create a simple TUI using ratatui for "windows" and sm for keeping state. And neither of them made something useful, even both of them correcting one another could not keep the logic construction big enough to track the state, update it appropriately and reflect the transitions on the screen.

At last I tired and wrote it manually.

So #LLM is a good tool but not a universal one even in the hype field. Guess, it's still a little bit early for retirement if you do something more complex than generic web-service.

However the boilerplate code and tests were created fast and without much effort (not tests for the state machine itself though), so the tools are useful and help you to get rid of some routine.

TLDR: we still have the most weird programming for us, my fellow developers!