I've long maintained that actually writing code is only a small part of the job. Understanding the code that exists and knowing what code to write is 90% of it.

I don't personally feel that gen AI has a place in my work, because I think about the code as I'm writing it. By the time I have a complete enough understanding of what I want the code to do in order to write it into a prompt, the work is already mostly done, and banging out the code that remains and seeing it come to life is just pure catharsis.

The idea of having to hand-hold an LLM through figuring out the solution itself just doesn't sound fun to me. If I had to do that, I'd rather be teaching an actual human to do it.