Writing a prompt with sufficient detail to generate the "correct" code is not a priori easier than just writing the code! There's no logical reason to think it

Writing a prompt with sufficient detail to generate the "correct" code is not a priori easier than just writing the code! There's no logical reason to think it should. Most genAI users intuitively known this and attempt to strike a balance between prompt engineering and traditional debugging techniques. Which suggest to me that, if anything, knowledge is even more critical since you're now describing the problem precisely in a natural language (hard!) and debugging/editing/reading code written by someone else (even harder!).