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The best 'halfway-compromise' there is that I accept ugly LLM code. And I focus on maxxing out end user experience above all. Maximize for correctness+performance- at expense of code style/quality. Because otherwise... feels like am just cooked. Really might not be room for us artisans anymore...

Because there's only so much time I can spend making the code itself beautiful. Time others never bothered to put in. Even pre-LLM days. And all most end users care about is how well something runs; not the process behind the creation or maintainability. We'll be very much a niche.

It's kind of like going ASM->C. Instead of building function bodies, you build the high level architecture. i.e. The APIs (contracts), how project is structured, how components form together. etc. LLM just fills the method bodies in. See something wrong in low level detail? Ask for refinement.

I for one have never been satisfied with it. I'm still *not*. LLM code *is* ugly, and hard to understand. I always rework it so it can be understood easier by others. I also refuse to have any code where I don't understand *every* line exactly 💯%. My pride doesn't allow it.

But how long can I realistically keep this up? Living like this will make me the assembly programmer when folks are writing in C. You don't need to make everything beautiful anymore w/ docs/explanation. Or understand 100%. '95%' is ok now. People can just ask their agents. That's the sad truth.