Comment by sailfast
8 hours ago
I felt everything in this post quite emphatically until the “but I’m actually faster than the AI.”
Might be my skills but I can tell you right now I will not be as fast as the AI especially in new codebases or other languages or different environments even with all the debugging and hell that is AI pull request review.
I think the answer here is fast AI for things it can do on its own, and slow, composed, human in the loop AI for the bigger things to make sure it gets it right. (At least until it gets most things right through innovative orchestration and model improvement moving forward.)
But those are the parts where it's important to struggle through the learning process even if you're slower than AI. if you defer to an LLM because it can do your work in a new codebase faster than you, that code base will stay new to you for forever. You'll never be able to review the AI code effectively.