I'd be curious to hear from anyone who's been AI coding for more than six months, shipping it to real users, and isn't looking at their code at all.
I haven't opened my IDE in months. I only skim the MRs to make sure there are no glaring issues.
Success is a good set of skills, a good up front design for your feature, architecture docs in your repo, lots of automated linting, unit testing, AI MR reviews, and black box e2e testing.
I doubt I'll ever _have_ to write a line of code again.
All of my time is spent juggling 5-20 agents, mostly planning and responding to the agents escalations.
GPT 6 Sol / GPT 6 Luna are my bread and butter and spec-driven design works great.
Like 75% of the small issues that used to take me a few hours or half a day in 2021 take me like 15 minutes to ship now start to finish, and I can ship them while doing other things.
I can also ship slop if the stakes are 0. The code I write has stakes. Thousands of dollars per false positive, which happens to be approximately the entire margin that we’re operating within. If a false positive occurs and I can’t explain it because I shipped slop, then it’s curtains for me - and our contract.