It is kind of like that.

More like being the boss of your own personal slave. Who happens to be good at coding and math, but they are a special needs person too. That was also mentally tortured in their youth to be trained to do actions and tricks like a circus monkey.

Sure they can sometimes kind of get what you want them to do. They can even do some miraculous things very fast. However more often than not they do not ever grasp essential concepts and subtle instructions. Which a normal coder who is fully mentally capable would get right away.

Which results in code made really fast to order, but the quality is not there. Like getting a pizza delivered to your door from a shady restaurant in under 30 minutes. However it tastes like shit and has some literal bugs on it too.