Thoughts from a younger generation..

> I find reviewing AI-written code so unpleasant and draining that honestly simply throwing it away and rewriting it by hand gets more tempting every time I do it. (Then having AI models review that, because they are very good at finding mistakes -- mistakes a human would also find if they had superhuman concentration, but of course nobody does.)

In my professional [1] and f/oss [2] niches, it's not just "unpleasant and draining" but usually *slower* to review versus rewriting from scratch. As an added benefit, said rewrite is instrumental in building/sustaining the mental models / understanding necessary to perform meaningful debugging and medium-to-long-term maintenance.

I'll add that this applies 3rd party code in general, but LLM-produced stuff is particularly bad IME. Sure, it *looks* amazing and is "explained" confidently, but you have to go over it line by line, checking literally every detail for accuracy.

[1] building models of various SoCs and peripherals for virtualization
[2] device drivers and other baremetal stuff