If you were iterating on code with a human partner, how fast would they write?

Like, obviously faster is better and the entire point of computers is to do things faster, but I find it kind of surprising how many people consider 9 tokens per second—heck, even much less than that—to be unusably slow. It's still automating a class of task that virtually no one before 2022 was able to automate, and it's faster than basically any human can write code.

I guess the better question is, why would you use a 9 token per second system when you could use a much faster cloud model. Obviously, if you want speed, that's the way to go. But a lot of people seem to find the idea of sending their requests to a third party server untenable. If 9 tokens per second is the best you can do—I don't know, that seems usable and useful to me.