Great story and I can relate. In the late '20s I worked as an ML intern at a tech company. They assigned me to train the crotchety programmers on prompt engineering, but they wanted nothing to do with it. To paint a picture, these folks were hunching over IDEs using keyboards and mice to type in their code, while cursing at the compiler the whole time. An internal chat/discussion/meme forum would be open on a browser tab on their second monitor. Needless to say, my summer project was not a success! :-)

(Let's revisit this comment of mine in a decade or two, if HN still exists)

Of course once you had edits the manual drawing speed advantage went away and plotting/printing tech soon caught up. One of the drafts people had a power eraser that would sound a round white eraser tip like a drill.