And the value of AI as pushed to us by these companies is in doing larger units of work.
But... reviewing code is harder than writing code. Expressing how I want something to be done in natural language is incredibly hard.
So over time I'm spending a lot of energy in those things, and only getting it 80% right.
Not to mention I'm constantly in this highly suspicious mode, trying to pierce through the veil of my own prompt and the code generated, because it's the edge cases that make work hard.
The end result is exhaustion. There is no recharge. Plans are front-loaded, and then you switch to auditing mode.
Whereas with code you front-load a good amount of design, but you can make changes as you go, and since you know your own code the effort to make those are much lower.
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