[atrettel]

This is a great analogy. I find myself thinking that by abstracting the entire design process when coding something using generative AI tools, you tend to lose track of fine details by only concentrating on the overall function.

Maybe the code works, but does it integrate well with the rest of the codebase? Do the data structures that it created follow the overall design principles for your application? For example, does it make the right tradeoffs between time and space complexity for this application? For certain applications, memory may be an issue and while code the may work, it uses too much memory to be useful in practice.

These are the kind of problems that I think about, and it aligns with your analogy. There is in fact something "lost through this translation layer".