The rise of async AI programming

It takes my longer to thoroughly review code I didn't write, especially code written by a junior developer.

Why would I choose to slow myself down in the short term and allow my skills to atrophy in the long term (which will also slow me down)?

I actually enjoy writing code... most of the time. I find myself turning to AI to write code I have an aversion to writing, not as a substitute for my own practice, but to get code that I would not have written in the first place. Like benchmarks, bash scripts, dashboards, unit tests, etc.

I can live without these things, but they're nice to have without expending the effort to figure out all the boilerplate necessary for solving very simple problems at their core. Sometimes AI can't get all the way to a solution, but usually it sets up enough of the boilerplate that only the fun part remains, and that's easy enough to do.

That sounds reasonable and similar to how I use it.

Managing a team of interns isn't fun, and I have no idea why someone who is a competent developer would choose to do that to themselves.

I don’t know anything about the competency of the AI boosters online.

But among people I’ve worked with whose capabilities I can judge, the competent programmers are not building things like this. Among my own sample size there is a near perfect negative correlation between AI use and competency.