You can outsource the grunt work to an LLM, not expertise

The more I use LLMs for programming, the more it seems to me that they can only be used successfully if you ask them to do things that you could do yourself. This seems to be the case because: you know exactly what you want/need and thus can exactly describe it; you know exactly if the LLM is actually delivering quality code or not; you know exactly if something the LLM suggests that you hadn’t…