> If you’re a nitpicky code reviewer, I think you will struggle to use AI tooling effectively. [...] Likewise, if you’re a rubber-stamp code reviewer, you’re probably going to put too much trust in the AI tooling.

So in other words, if you are good at code review you are also good enough at writing code that you will be better off writing it yourself for projects you will be responsible for maintaining long term. This is true for almost all of them if you work at a sane place or actually care about your personal projects. Writing code for you is not a chore and you can write it as fluently and quickly as anything else.

Your time "using AI" is much better spent filling in the blanks when you're unfamiliar with a certain tool or need to discover a new one. In short, you just need a few google searches a day... just like it ever was.

I will admit that modern LLMs have made life easier here. AI summaries on search engines have indeed improved to the point where I almost always get my answer and I no longer get hung up meat-parsing poorly written docs or get nerd-sniped pondering irrelevant information.