alt Hacker NewsSome people like it better when they direct the solution because they walk away with a better understanding of it.
This has emotional/psychological aspects (it feels less like LLMs are replacing you), as well as practical ones (overall complexity is bounded by what the dev brain can understand/grasp).
A dev work becomes more and more about reliability, signing off safe software with a litmus test: “I will be on to handle this code failure as if I had written it”.
All the above points towards keeping tight control over some level of abstractions and delegating others.
I find it depends at what stage I'm at with the idea - sometimes I don't want to understand it until it works, because I've wasted enough life on things that didn't do what was promised. But once I know the idea is feasible, yes I would prefer to understand the code at some level.