The "time dialation" is real. I mostly manage these days, yet my fun projects progress faster than they ever have, because I can prompt in the 2 minutes between meetings, and come back to significant progress.
Yes, it's not faster to develop with AI if you watch it work. It's faster to develop with AI if you parallelize. Typing was never the bottleneck, but is is a now-parallelizeable part of the pipeline.
That’s always true in my experience, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to. The trick I’m working towards is refining the workflow such that i can reliably produce maybe 90% as “good” as what I’d personally produce but much, much faster.
All sorts of side work I was avoiding before also becomes much easier, less tedious refactors and large test coverage and etc.
It can type much faster than I can, the trick is if we can constrain the thinking enough to make it useful. Keeping it as an autocomplete is as productive as it is difficult imo.