"who's only redeeming skill is the ability to type really, really quickly" This really resonates. Here’s the hard truth: AI coding assistants are like giving devs a faster keyboard. Sure, they type faster—but typing was never the bottleneck.

And while AI often produces high-quality code on the surface, when things go wrong, they take longer to fix. MTTR for AI-generated code is much higher, especially when devs don’t fully grok the code they accepted. That undercuts a lot of the perceived velocity gains, especially in complex, evolving systems.