You said you have to babysit each line of code, I mean this is simply untrue, if it works there's no need to babysit, the only reason you'd need to babysit every single line is if you're looking for perfection or it's something very obscure or unheard of.

Your example is perhaps valid, but there are other examples where it does work as I mentioned. I think it may be imprecise prompting, too general or with too little logic structure. It's not like Google search, the more detail and more technical you speak the better, assume it's a very precise expert. Its intelligence is very general so it needs precision to avoid confusing subject matter. A well structured logic to your request also helps as it's reasoning isn't the greatest.

Good prompting and verifying output is often still faster than manually typing it all.