@liskin @mjg59 To me it's like seeing the shape of the code form as I write it and discovering that it could be better, more elegant. I know what the algorithm needs to achieve, but maybe I've not thought of the optimal order of things before I see it, realised every shortcut, etc.

@mjg59 You never realise the original idea could be improved a bit along the way? This probably depends on what's being worked on. Most of the stuff I do is fairly small scale and not particularly well specified (day job is mostly sysadmin, off day jobs are museum installations).

@mjg59 Ok, but the process of writing code is creative. You think as you write, new ideas are formed. The LLM process at least reduces that.