Considering that a fleur-de-lis involves somewhat intricate curves, I think I'd be pretty happy with myself if I could get that task done in an hour.

Given a harness that allows the model to validate the result of its program visually, and given the models are capable of using this harness to self correct (which isn't yet consistently true), then you're in a situation where in that hour you are free to do some other work.

A dishwasher might take 3 hours to do for what a human could do in 30 minutes, but they're still very useful because the machine's labor is cheaper than human labor.

Even with well understood languages, if there isn't much in the public domain for the framework you're using it's not really that helpful. You know you're at the edges of its knowledge when you can see the exact forum posts you are looking at showing up verbatim in it's responses.

I think some industries with mostly proprietary code will be a bit disappointing to use AI within.

LLMs are really bad at anything visual, as demonstrated by pelicans riding bicycles, or Claude Plays Pokémon.

Opus would probably do better though.

I got Opus 4.6 to one shot it, took 5-ish mins. "Write me a python program that outputs an svg of a fleur-de-lis. Use freely available images to double check your work."

It basically just re-created the wikipedia article fleur-de-lis, which I'm not sure proves anything beyond "you have to know how to use LLMs"

Have you tried describing to Claude what it is? The more the detail the better the result. At some point it does become easier to just do it yourself.