This is a wonderfully balanced and accurate take. I have been looking for the right medium of using AI to assist me. Cannot agree more on the three patterns to implement and there to avoid.

If the three good patterns are adhered to, these AI tools can help us become more knowledgeable, productive.

We get to retain our cognitive abilities and the desire to pursue code development as a means to solving hard problems.

Adopting the anti-patterns, on the other hand, could lead to over-reliance on AI, anxiety when the tools go down (this happens! ), the atrophy of ability to debug and the yearning for immediate gratification and quick fixes.

Most insidiously, when code inevitably fails in production on cases the developer should have reasoned about and covered, they have no option but to toss it back to the AI tool, thereby, creating a vicious cycle of anxiety, helplessness and cognitive decay.