I was thinking how it would be interesting to make an environment where instead of LLM just crapping out a bunch of code really fast, it works more like a pair programming exercise going at human speed.

The LLM would explain what it's doing, then write a bit of code, then you have time to look at it and understand it, and go to the next step. At any point you can interject and discuss or change it.

I find the biggest problem is that once an LLM generates a bunch of code, it's really hard for a human to build up the context for what the code is doing and why. When you're coding normally or pairing, then you're gradually absorbing the context and what the code is doing throughout the process.

The reality is that writing code fast was never the bottleneck. It's understanding the code and making sure it's actually doing what's needed that's hard.