I have the m2 air with 16gb ram and am really happy with it. I carry it in my bag everyday so the weight difference to the 14pro is importantly to me. But I have to say that I semi regularly forget to bring my usb c hdmi dongle to meetings. I am still leaning more towards the air since I can still do video cutting and coding much faster than on any other pc.

I feel like the debugging dopamine comes from the fact that it’s usually a well scoped problem that’s easier to understand than implementing a new feature while still being important. At least that is how I explain it to myself. It sounds like that is taken away from you, since the llm kinda opens up the scope in programming.