> I guess part of it is also that I don't mind doing 'hand-edits' like for example LLMs love to say "// so and so removed" I just go and remove that manually later rather than being like "don't comment about what you removed!11" cause you're really fighting deep grooves in the model's behavior at that point.

I feel like this is the way. There are surely things where it's faster; certainly it's more pleasant to do simply things yourself than repeatedly try to figure out the magic words to communicate the idea while outsourcing it. Whether it's to an LLM or to another person.