> It's very clear they dont.

Be careful, these statements are aging faster than milk. Most skeptics of even a few months ago suddenly got very quiet. New models are getting very advanced; the pace is stupefying. LLMs absolutely can and do write much better code today than the majority of senior software engineers, or at least at comparable levels. If you're not seeing that, you either aren't using the greatest models, your harness needs some work, or maybe you specialize in some very niche domains where LLMs are legitimately helpless.

It will write whatever you prompt using any conventions you want, so you can use it to write great code.