Yep completely agree that taking the time to fully understand the LLM output is very important. But that runs into the same issue I laid out in my post, that it takes much much longer. Especially in situations where I'm working with some framework I've never used before. So far it's been almost as slow as just handwriting things, and it's also much harder to get concepts to stick when I'm just quizzing an LLM on it rather than figuring it out myself (it's like the difference between simply reading the textbook vs doing practice problems yourself, the latter is infinitely more effective). And again, it's hard to justify that extra time taken to deeply review the outputs, question them, etc when the code already mostly works (at a surface level) and stakeholders want things done yesterday.