> AI speeds up typing, which was never the bottleneck for an expert in a codebase they already know. For me as a dev, that's not the whole truth. Where I've fo

> AI speeds up typing, which was never the bottleneck for an expert in a codebase they already know. For me as a dev, that's not the whole truth. Where I've found actual value in AI (and I think were some of that "perceived speedup" is coming from) is looking up things. Unless you know the codebase and used libraries extremely well, you will have to do lots of "micro-lookups" during coding, where you have to find the specific APIs or library functions for your problem, then figure out how exactly you have to call them, how to handle the result, etc. That's lots of "research" work interleaved with actually writing the code. AIs seem to be good enough to have a lot of that knowledge already baked into their weights, at least for popular platforms, so if you prompt it something, you can skip all that low-level lookup work or at least defer it until code review. Even during review, it's easier, because you don't have to come up with the appropriate library function from scratch, you only have to verify that the ones the AI used make sense and are used correctly.