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With handwritten code, the humans know what they don’t know. If you want some constants or some formula, you don’t invent or guess it, you ask the domain expert.


> With handwritten code, the humans know what they don’t know.

I find this often not to be the case at all.


Let's put it this way: the human author is capable of doing so. The LLM is not. You can cultivate the human to learn to think in this way. You can for a brief period coerce an LLM to do so.


True, but IMO irrelevant. "What could have been" (capabilities) is just another "if only..."




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