alt Hacker NewsSpeaking just for myself, AI has allowed me to start doing projects that seemed daunting at first, as it automates much of the tedious act of actually typing code from the keyboard, and keeps me at a higher level.
But yes, I usually constrain my plans to one function, or one feature. Too much and it goes haywire.
I think a side benefit is that I think more about the problem itself, rather than the mechanisms of coding.
Actually, I wonder how they measured the 'speed' of coding, maybe I missed it. But if developers can spend more time thinking about the larger problems, that may be a cause of the slowdown. I guess it remains to be seen if the code quality or feature set improves.