AI Has Made Me Faster, But Has It Made Me Worse?

AI has made me faster. A lot faster. But recently, I caught myself doing something that made me wonder whether that speed is coming at a cost.

I’ve been a front-end developer for roughly 20 years, and these days I use AI to write most of my code.

I’m still thinking through architecture, making technical decisions, reviewing what gets generated, and deciding what actually belongs in the codebase.

But I’m doing far less of the actual coding than I used to.

And every once in a while, I notice something that makes me wonder...