Meanwhile, the rest of us use AI assistants that can sometimes make drudge work a bit faster, but often fuck up so badly they actually don't save time at all.
It makes generating code easier, but it doesn’t really help with understanding or debugging the system when something goes wrong.
In some cases it actually makes debugging harder, because you’re dealing with code you didn’t fully build a mental model for.
So you save time upfront, but pay it back (sometimes with interest) when things break in production.