>Might as well just write the code yourself at that point

"We have this thing that can speed your code writing 10x"

"If it isn't 1000x and it doesn't give me a turnkey end to end product might as well write the whole thing myself"

People have forgotten balance. Which is funny, because the inability of the AI to just do the whole thing end to end correctly is what stands between 10 developers having a job versus 1 developer having a job telling 10 or 20 agents what to do end to end and collecting the full results in a few hours.

And if you do it the way I describe you get to both use AI, AND have "a much better understanding of the codebase (and way better code)".