I agree, and even moreso, it's easy to see the (low!) cost of throwing away an implementation. I've had the AI coder produce something that works and technically meets the spec, but I don't like it for some reason and it's not really workable for me to massage it into a better style.

So I look up at the token usage, see that it cost 47 cents, and just `git reset --hard`, and try again with an improved prompt. If I had hand-written that code, it would have been much harder to do.