I'm not a good enough engineer to code with LLMs

Understand what you want to build. Architect it. Talk to it like a junior. Ask for a plan, ask it to write the plan in plan.md, ask it to update the plan after every task (for example add this to CLAUDE.md), tell it to look at the plan and resume from last priorities. Let it one shot solutions where you care less whether it uses a standard approach. Sometimes you will know it will take an incorrect standard approach, and you can preempt it and tell it where you want it to go, which algos/libs to use, etc.

After every working solution, commit. Because you never know when it will fall into a salad loop, you want to be able to reset to last commit and start fresh.

It’s addictive yes, keep your mind sharp by using the extra time you have to learn more stuff, build in other fields, etc.