Same, I like to call it rubber duck coding (now the duck talks back!)

Edit: Now I want an LLM connected rubber duck with a speaker/microphone that sees your screen

Reminds of me of RubberDuckGPT (rubber-duck-gpt.com):

“I won't give you answers. Instead, I'll reflect your questions back to help you think more deeply about your problems.”

Totally doable and I would buy one. Only problem is that most of the time when I'm doing "SWE" stuff I'm around other people and can't have the conversation out loud.

For my own projects, I'm very happy with an outcome that is "not faster, but better" as a result of my use of generative AI.

I still hope this will be a shared goal in at least some tech companies long-term. But the headwinds are strong. "Not better, but faster" is starting to look like a job requirement.