I mean, yes, absolutely I can. So can my peers. I've been doing this for a long, long time, as have my peers.

The code we produce is many times more readable and maintainable than anything an LLM can produce today.

That doesn't mean LLMs are useless, and it also doesn't mean that we're irreplaceable. It just means this argument isn't very effective.

If you're comparing an LLM to a Junior developer? Then absolutely. Both produce about the same level of maintainable code.

But for Senior/Principal level engineers? I mean this without any humble bragging at all: but we run circles around LLMs from the optimization and maintainability standpoint, and it's not even close.

This may change in the future, but today it is true (and I use all the latest Claude Code models)