@mjd I had a thought about what you said the other day about using LLMs because you still want to design things, but you don't want to have to implement them.

Rather than an LLM, which is consumptive and negative in more ways than I can count, it feels like what might work for you is a set of junior engineers to mentor. Tell them what you want, and they can do the legwork implementing. And as pleasant side effects, now there are more engineers in the world that can do things, and they've learned how to structure and organize things.

I'm not originating this idea, but consider that mentoring young engineers builds the next generation, whereas using LLMs, aside from anything else, is pulling up the ladder after you.