Comment by vidarh

I love coding, and I'm extremely picky, but I also agree with you it's not what I'm being paid to do. And even in hobby projects there are plenty of rough drafts necessary that I can outsource to an LLM, and then I get to refine things afterward, when they're working, and I can obsess over details...

To take your table analogy, which I fully agree with, if I wanted to take the effort of crafting a nice wooden table, I'd happily have someone cut the pieces for me and do the basic stuff that doesn't require specific skills, and then spend my time applying the finer details that makes the difference between a basic table and a great table. I get that some people would want to do everything "from scratch", but I'd rather focus on where I can make the most difference.