> "Make this. LGTM. Now make this".

I think well north of 90% of people in software engineering have job expectations that, when assisted/automated with AI, boil down to exactly that.

It's a pain in the ass to work at such a job and find challenges or things to master--your superiors don't want you to do that, there's not enough time in the day, and you're tired from LGTM-now-make-this work.

That's most software jobs, because that's what most software companies want.

Because I literally can just burn tokens instead of using any of my brain cells and the outcome is way better than what I would have achieved thinking deeply and intricately about the implementation because Opus 5.5 at xhigh implements way better than I ever could and I'm paid well and have studied for years and it's not a low-level environment at all.

Since opus 4.8 the tools have started surpassing me and now they are far gone, so implementing by hand would mean sacrificing quality and my main goal as an engineer has always been quality so even though I hate it, I must use the best tool for the job.