I’ve been producing bad code (because of AI)

Question

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.

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Research sources and full transcript available in the video description.

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