This better reflects what I thought about the other day. You either, let clankers do its thing and then bake in your implementation on top, you think it through and make them do it, but at the end of the day you've still gotta THINK of the optimal solution and state of the code at which point, do clankers do anything asides from saving you a bunch of keypresses, and maybe catching a couple of bugs?
The problem is that I don't know what I'll achieve manually before attempting the task.