[mattgreenrocks]

Fantastic insight. Without doing the easy work, we cannot recognize when it is appropriate, which is more often than not, in my experience. There's also a certain humility to doing things as simply as possible. LLMs lack the self-reflective capability to see that maybe an incremental change to use batching for a write-heavy op shouldn't be 200 lines of code.

Tools can't replace human understanding of a problem, and that understanding is the foundation for effective growth and maintenance of code.