@drhoopoe @uberduck For sure. Coding and serious writing have in common that you get much better results if you can hold the whole thing in your head, and at least for me, that requires dwelling in the small details.

I very often have the experience that however much I plan or research in advance, it's only in the act of writing that some of the pennies drop. That I see more deeply, or find a better way through.

The notion that we can automate that mental work strikes me as managerialist foolishness. Wishful thinking from people who often act without real understanding, and think everybody else should too.