Sometimes articulating the problem is all you need to see what the solution is. Trying many things quickly can prime you to see what the viable path is going to be. Iterating fast can get you to a higher level of understanding than methodical, deliberative construction.
Nevertheless, it's a tool that should be used when it's useful, just like slower consideration can be used. Frontier LLMs can help significantly in either case.
so, what i am gathering is that some people in this comment section read "typing faster" literally, while other people are reading it and translating it to "iterating faster".
"Code writing speed" is just a superficial dismissal of AI without consideration as to whether AI is being used well or poorly for the task at hand. Saying that AI is the same as making people type faster, or that AI only produces slop, etc, is a very self limiting mindset.