> What bothers me the most is that I much prefer to build stuff rather than fixing code I'm not intimately familiar with.

Me too. But I think there's a split here. Some people love the new fast and loose way and rave about how they're experiencing more joy coding than ever before.

But I tried it briefly on a side project, and hated the feeling of disconnect. I started over, doing everything manually but boosted by AI and it's deeply satisfying. There is just one section of AI written code that I don't entirely understand, a complex SQL query I was having trouble writing myself. But at least with an SQL query it's very easy to verify the code does exactly what you want with no possibility of side effects.