I am prompting better. It doesn't help the LLM be more productive than me on a regular tuesday.

Sure, I can get the task done by delegating everything to an agentic workflow, but it just adds a bunch of useless overhead to my work.

I still need to know what the code does at the end of the day, so I can document it and reason about it. If I write the code myself, it's easy. If an LLM does it, it's a chore.

And even without those concerns, the LLM is still slower than me. Unless it's trivial boilerplate, in which case other tools serve me better and cheaper.

I'll note that a compiler is one of the most well understood and implemented software projects, much of it open source, which means the LLM has a lot of prior art that it can copy.