[lkey]

The process of writing the code, thinking all the while, is how most humans learn a codebase. Integrating alien code sequentially disrupts this process, even if you understand individual components. The solution is to methodically work through the codebase, reading, writing, and internalizing its structure, and comparing that to the known requirements. And yet, if this is always required of you as a professional, what value did the LLM add beyond speeding up your typing while delaying the required thinking?