I frequently run into this, and it’s quite maddening. When you’re working on a toy problem where generating functioning code is giving you a headache - either b

I frequently run into this, and it’s quite maddening. When you’re working on a toy problem where generating functioning code is giving you a headache - either because it’s complex or because the programming language is foreign or crass - no problem. When you’re trying to extend an assemblage of 10 mixins in a highly declarative framework that many large-scale API contracts rely on to be correct, the problem is always going to boil down to how well the programmer understands the existing tools/context that they’re working with. To me, a lot of this boils down to the old truism that “code is easier to write than maintain or extend”. Companies who dole out shiny star stickers for producing masses of untested, unmaintainable code will always reap their rewards, whether they’re relying on middling engineers and contractors alone, or with novices supercharged with ChatGPT.