The real question is whether “debugging” the LLM is going to be as effective as debugging the code.

IME it pays dividends but it can be really painful. I’ve run into a situation multiple times where I’m using Claude Code to write something, then a week later while working it’ll come up with something like “Oh wait! Half the binaries are in .Net and not Delphi, I can just decompile them with ilspy”, effectively showing the way to a better rewrite that works better with fewer bugs that gets done in a few hours because I’ve got more experience from the v1. Either way it’s tens of thousands of lines of code that I could never have completed myself in that amount of time (which, given problems of motivation, means “at all”).