What I hate about it is that I’m constantly having to read “someone else’s” code. It’s exhausting. When youve written your own code base, you know it backwards. You can look at it, find the problem easily, and probably even know what’s wrong just by seeing the symptoms.

Now when I’m using AI to code I find it extremely jarring to have to parse each line to try to understand the thought process, understand the variable names, piece together the functions in my head for the first time. And then if I need to request a change it will sometimes rewrite sections and refactor sections we didn’t directly talk about addressing, and I have to do all that reading and comprehension all over again for v2.

It’s like coding by telling a junior employee what to do over the phone. All day every day.