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Exactly this.

I think a little friction is important in a lot of things we do on a daily basis.

They can only harm you if you pay them.

And you can invent new solutions to problems. AI just spitting back that it scraped from Stack Overflow.

"Restriction breeds creativity" once again applying to basically everything. Coding with LLMs encourages bloat, since everything is just a whim and a prompt away.

I literally told my students yesterday "the less code you have, the fewer bugs you can have." We spent half a century trying to figure out how to create elegant, general solutions with minimal code to people saying "who cares if the code is bad? Just regenerate the whole project every week."

Unfortunately more code written in shorter time seems to be a valid reasonable pov. No one thinks on the technological debt building up faster than you ever could with humans. The calculus seems to be that later we clean up with better models.