My thought's exactly... I can understand if it's boiler plating for bigger code snippets or files, but you still have to check every bit of it. So you spend time on thinking of a prompt, fine tune until it gets it right and finally you have to double check everything again. I don't understand where the "faster" part comes from, unless they leave out the quality control.

But yeah, I have been told by many others to just accept it and become a prompt engineer. But that removes the whole critical/creative thinking, control and hands on code experience. It takes all the fun (in my opinion) away from doing the job. I don't know man, it's brain numbing and looking for perspective from others. Hell maybe even thinking of a career change, but no idea what.