> I can attest that the first pass of testing can often be shit. That's why you iterate.

So far, by the time I’m done iterating, I could have just written it myself. Typing takes like no time at all in aggregate. Especially with AI assisted autocomplete. I spend far more time reading and thinking (which I have to do to write a good spec for the AI anyways).

Nope, you couldn't have written it yourself in the same time. That's just a false assumption a lot of you like to make.