> You need to take all that effort that used to go into good code and good comments, and put it into a good spec doc, and hand that file to the AI

This is inefficient. If quality matters at all, you’re going to miss things in your English design doc and/or use 100 words where 1 line of code will do.

If quality (as in product, not code) doesn’t matter then sure, do whatever. LLM will fill in the gaps.

> world where $20 quartz-movement watches have appeared

Much like in real life, if you’re paying for a cheap knock off you get what you pay for. Also much like real life, plenty of people will pay for $20 knock offs and be content.