It’s what’s called in software engineering as “casual software” as a differentiator of “business software” and “critical software”. Not all types needs a high bar of quality, and most of the software engineering thought practices are tailored for business applications that will be made available to multiple users.
As you said, building a script that only you use personally or a very simple thing that just accomplishes one task and it’s easy to test require almost no engineering, and an LLM can often build those with very little downsides.
As you said, building a script that only you use personally or a very simple thing that just accomplishes one task and it’s easy to test require almost no engineering, and an LLM can often build those with very little downsides.