This may be the crux of it.

Turning slapdash prose into median-grade code is not a problem I can imagine needing to solve.

I think I'm better at describing code in code than I am in prose.

I Want to Believe. And I certainly don't want to be "that guy", but my honest assessment of LLMs for coding so far is that they are a frustrating Junior, who maybe I should help out because mentoring might be part of my job, but from whom I should not expect any near-term technical contribution.