I’ve been producing bad code for the past year. Not because I forgot how to code—because I’ve been trying to delegate everything to AI.
New research shows experienced developers are 19% slower with AI—but feel 20% faster. That’s a 40 percentage point gap between perception and reality.
In this video, I walk through three major studies that prove what many of us suspect but don’t want to admit: AI isn’t making us faster. It’s making us understand less, trust less, and ship code we can’t debug.
What You’ll Learn
- The Speed Mirage: Why you feel productive but the data says otherwise
- The Confidence Boundary: What to delegate vs what to keep
- Infrastructure First: Specs + ADRs that make AI actually useful
This isn’t anti-AI. I use it every day. But the lie that it makes everything magically faster? That needs to die.
Confidence over throughput. That’s the bet I’m making.
Research sources and full transcript available in the video description.