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> I'm an amateur, effectively, with little time. I like AI tools for coding, because I can input a request, and get sample code.

This sounds kinda like contemporary Chinese text entry. Nobody remembers exactly which strokes in what order, but can feed some parameters into an app and get back candidate characters.

Of course the characters are a simple enumeration, while what you get from a coding-helper app is still a form of electronic hairball and requires a second look, and a third.



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