[aleph_minus_one]

> But the reality is, when I'm in a state of 'Tell LLM what to do, verify, repeat', it's really hard to sometimes break out of that loop and do manual fixes.

My experience is rather that I am annoyed by bullshit really fast, so if the model does not get me something that is really good, or it can at least easily be told what needs to be done to make it exceptional, I tend to use my temper really fast, and get annoyed by the LLM.

With this in mind, I rather have the feeling that you are simply too tolerant with respect to shitty code.