What AI coding costs you | Tom Wojcik
What’s the effect of the prolonged AI usage among coders and is it tracked correctly, if it all?
Tom Wojcik
Refusing to use AI out of principle is as irrational as adopting it out of hype.
A really great, pragmatic look at "AI-assisted human coding human-assisted AI-coding".
You’re on call, the phone rings at 3am, can you triage the issue without an agent? If not, you’ve probably taken AI coding too far.
The concept of Cognitive Debt continues gain traction and teams need to get ahead of it before they're trying to iterate on and operate architectures they have no mental model of. The idea of taking stock of your AI usage is a good first step at the individual level.