The quote doesn’t really do the analysis justice.

“You type in your prompt, the machine tells you how absolutely right you are, generates some code, you run it—and it does entirely the wrong thing. You realize that you needed to explain that things work in this way, not that way, write some instructions, generate other code...and it does mostly the wrong thing. Progress!”

https://www.sicpers.info/2025/11/essence-and-accident-in-language-model-assisted-coding/