[mewpmewp2]

You can ask the why, but if it provides the wrong approach, just ask to make it what you want it to be. What is wrong with iteration?

I frequently have LLM write proposal.MD first and then iterate on that, then have the full solution, iterate on that.

It will be interesting to see if it does the proposal like I had in mind and many times it uses tech or ideas that I didn't know about myself, so I am constantly learning too.

[_shadi]

I might have not been clear in my original reply, I don't have this problem when using an LLM myself, I sometimes notice this when I review code by new joiners that was written with the help of an LLM, the code quality is usually ok unless I want to be pedantic, but sometimes the agent helper make new comers dig themselves deeper in the wrong approach while if they asked a human coworker they would probably have noticed that the solution is going the wrong way from the start, which touches on what the original article is about, I don't know if that is incompetence acceleration, but if used wrong or maybe not in a clear directed way, it can produce something that works but has monstrous unneeded complexity.

[viraptor]

We had the same worries about StackOverflow years ago. Juniors were going to start copying code from there without any understanding, with unnecessary complexity and without respect for existing project norms.