> Installing pandoc is basically a one-time cost that is amortized over its uses, so... why worry about it?
Because space of problems LLMs of today solve well with trivial prompts is vast, far greater than any single classical tool covers. If you're comparing solutions to 100 random problems, you have to count in those one-time costs, because you'll need to use some 50-100 different tools to get through them all.
> Relying on the compiler to catch every mistake is a pretty limited strategy.
No, you're relying on the compiler to catch every mistake than can be caught mechanically - exactly the kind of things humans suck at. It's kind of the entire point of errors and warnings in compilers, or static typing for that matter.
No, if you are having an LLM generate code that you are not reviewing, you are relying on the compiler 100%. (Or the runtime, if it isn't a compiled language.)
Relying on the compiler to catch every mistake is a pretty limited strategy.