[foobarbecue]

I feel this is also true of code in general.

Writing is easy; reading is hard.

That's why LLMs aren't much help to me -- they just increase my workload by giving me more code to read and review. If I write it myself, I already know what it means, so that saves time and effort.

[fhd2]

I find this mostly pays off in debugging: Having written code usually means I know it better than code I've reviewed, which I know better than code I've never seen. Finding a weird bug in code I know well is a _lot_ easier.