Fair point. I have definitely caught myself taking longer to revise a prompt repeatedly after the AI gets things wrong several times than it would have taken to write the code myself.

I'd like to think that I have this under control because the methodology of working in small increments helps me to recognize when I've gotten stuck in an eddy, but I'll have to watch out for it.

I still maintain that the LLM is saving me time overall. Besides helping in unfamiliar domains, it's also faster than me at leaf-node tasks like writing unit tests.