I only use what I need, plain and simple, and its free yup, works local too.
Llms suck at large projects, so I break it down to small simple things, what I wrote is an example of a small thing, I keep the tasks that large.
I can write my own code. I just use LLMs to speed up. I use whatever workflow suits me the most and saves me from typing much
Code generating with LLMs is a reinvention of local tools that used to generate code, yes. Its an advanced autocomplete.
But give me another tool that can generate code from natural language full of typos. I dont think your claim that it existed before llms is correct at all.
Ever code generation task could be handwritten to be reusable but that takes developer hours
Those tools existed before LLMs and were local, fast, and most importantly free.
Why people continue to re-invent tools and workflows we already have, I don't know. Perhaps they just like to be able say "but this uses AI!"