LLMs is soup from a nail

They “sell” me LLMs as they can build anything quickly and faster than manual coding, but I only need to design the feature, craft prompts, write tests, update AGENTS(.md), write skills, refactor the code, and review it.

Reminds me of the “soup from a nail” tale:

A traveler (an LLM company) knocked on a door asking for food.

“Sorry,” the hosts (developers) said, “we have nothing.”

“No problem,” the traveler replied. “I can make soup from a nail.”

Curious, the hosts let him try. He dropped a nail into a pot of boiling water and tasted it.

“Hmm… not bad,” he said. “But it would be even better with a little onion.”

They brought an onion.

After a while he tasted it again. “Now it just needs a carrot.”

They brought a carrot.

“Maybe a potato too,” he suggested.

Soon the pot was full of delicious soup, and everyone sat down to eat together.