Writing code is the reward for doing the thinking. If the LLM does it then software engineering is no fun.

It’s like painting - once you’ve finally finished the prep, which is 90% of the effort, actually getting to paint is the reward

+1000. one of my coworkers keeps thinking he’s saving time with AI-generated code but what he’s really doing is pushing the thinking downstream when we have to pick apart the absolute garbage that gets generated.

PR feedback gets turned into AI prompts and the cycle continues. It’s exhausting