No you misunderstand me. I support such a view but cannot hold it because my pace at work is so much fast. And hand coding like this will make personal projects s slow and choreful with no visible progress. Like where is the joy in that?

Has this been your first hand experience?

And if so, in what work, and have you tried debugging issues with SOTA models?

From my experience it is certainly not the case that you cannot make progress after the first month.

I work on native mobile applications.