I Let AI Handle the Coding and Now I Don't Know What I'm Doing

I've become a human translator who just adds comments to code written by AI lol

In code reviews, if someone can't explain why they wrote it that way, don't just let it pass. Just sticking to that one rule keeps your skills sharp. That's what's keeping me afloat right now.

Well, that sounds like a bit of a dangerous idea. Reviewing code written by AI doesn't actually improve your design skills. It's just practice reading someone else's code. Meanwhile, your judgment around architecture and tradeoffs doesn't improve either, and a few months later you can feel yourself falling behind.

Reviews are the real skill, I agree.

Me too ㅠ Every day feels so empty.

But if you look at it the other way, back then all your time went into boilerplate. Now you can use that time to think about architecture, so the work has changed—it hasn't disappeared.

Even that kind of review will probably be done better by AI in a few years... Then what's left for us, seriously?

I went through that stage too, and normally it's really convenient. But the difference really shows the moment an incident hits or you get tangled up with legacy code. I think your real skill shows in the parts AI can't write for you.

Got a source? No, where is that kind of statistic?

Honestly, this is just copium lol. Plenty of people have AI do their reviews too. In the end, the ones who survive are those who are good at defining problems, and only the ones who keep sharpening that skill stick around.