Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

Been using LLMs to code a bit lately. It's decent with boilerplate. It's pretty good at working out patterns[1]. It does like to ping pong on some edits though - edit this way, no back that way, no this way again. I did have one build an entire iOS app, it made changes to the UI exactly as I described, and it populated sample data for all the different bits and bobs. But it did an abysmal job at organizing the bits and bobs. Need running time for each of the audio files in a list? Guess we need to add a dictionary mapping the audio file ID to length! (For the super juniors out there: this piece of data should be attached to whatever represents the individual audio file, typically a class or struct named 'AudioFile'.)

It really likes to cogitate on code from several versions ago. And it often insists repeatedly on edits unrelated to the current task.

I feel like I'm spending more time educating the LLM. If I can resist the urge to lean on the LLM beyond its capabilities, I think I can be productive with it. If I'm going to stop teaching the thing, the least it can do is monitor my changes and not try to make suggestions from the first draft of code from five days ago, alas ...

1 - e.g. a 500-line text file representing values that will be converted to enums, with varying adherence to some naming scheme - I start typing, and after correcting the first two, it suggests the next few. I accept its suggestions until it makes a mistake because the data changed, start manual edits again ... I repeated this process for about 30 lines and it successfully learned how I wanted the remainder of the file edited.