AI coding tools are optimising the wrong thing and nobody wants to hear it. Writing code was already fast. The bottleneck is everything else: unclear requirements, review queues, terrified deploy cultures, and an org chart that needs six meetings to decide what colour the button should be.
It is said in the development community that as a junior you write more code and think less, and when you become more senior you think more and write less code.
Experience leads to the technical equivalent of ‘measure twice, cut once’.