Perhaps for the the style or complexity of the code you (and i) are seeing on a regular basis this is true.

I find, for low logical complexity code, it’s less about the difficulty of reading it and more about the speed.

I can read significantly quicker than i can type and if the code isn’t something i need additional time to reason about then spotting issue with existing code can be quicker than me writing the same code out.

Boilerplate code is a good example of this.

Though, as i said, I’ve found the point at which that loses it’s reliable usefulness is relatively low in the complexity scale.

The specific issue i have with people pushing LLM’s as a panacea for boilerplate code is that it’s not declarative and is prone to reasonable looking hallucinations , given enough space.

Even boilerplate in large enough amount can be subject to eccentricities of LLM imagination.