You don't need to be a good writer to recognize good writing, the same goes for code.

Okay bit of nuance; this applies to fiction / nonfiction writing based on writing style, not so much correctness - for judging correctness you don't need to be good at writing code (or legalese, or fiction), but you need to understand what's written on the one hand and what the writing should express on the other.

I agree with OP. It’s already the case that when I write code by hand I forget to do stuff that an AI with good instructions would never forget. I struggle with Boolean conditions that get more complex than a few operators while the AI can easily explain and track things like that. Debugging in your head was necessary sometimes to figure out why something was doing unexpected things, now you ask an AI and explain the strange behavior and it will tell you exactly what the problem was in seconds. In summary, at least let the AI review your work, you will be surprised how many issues it finds. At some point it’s just not worth it trying to do things manually, it’s even becoming irresponsible, like not using a type system ( though even that argument was polemic once)

I know from experience that Claude will be confident about something, but when I push back it will concede quickly. And it will happily overly complicate the code, come up with made up requirements or rules that it inferred but are completely bogus.