One of the first three projects I tried was a spin on a to-do app. The buttons didn't even work when clicked.

Yes, I keep it iterating, give it a puppeteer MCP, etc.

I think you're just misunderstanding how hard it is to make a greenfield project when you have a super-charged stack overflow that AI is.

Greenfield projects aren't hard, what's hard is starting them.

What AI has helped me immensely with is blank page syndrome. I get it to spit out some boilerplate for a SINGLE page, then boom, I have a new greenfield project 95% my own code in a couple of days.

That's the mistake I think you 10x ers are making.

And you're all giddy and excited and are putting in a ton of work without realising you're the one doing the work, not the AI.

And you'll eventually burn out on that.

And those of us who are a bit more skeptical are realising we could have done it on our own, faster, we just wouldn't normally have bothered. I'd have gone done some gardening with that time instead.