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I'm not sure that's as certain, I think just by virtue or LLMs being better copypasting/integrated stackoverflow you can get a speed boost (prompts like "generate a similar test to this one checking condition X").

The question is whether humans can sensibly judge the break even point and not generate faster than that. It's very easy to get lost in the woods and suddenly have a bunch of generated stuff you no longer grok.



But it boils down to 'can you review code faster than you write it'?

To which, yes, everyone does in practice, but that's because we were relying on juniors and peers being human and making only human-style mistakes.




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