the sentiment "AI couldn't code last year, but now I use it for everything!" rings true for me... but I didn't flip cause AI is now better than me... I flipped cause now I am faster with AI than without it...

A year ago the AI output was so bad that getting it up to my standards took more than writing it myself from scratch. And nowadays it is faster for me to start with AI output and iterate from there to reach quality submission.

The ninety-ninety[0] rule was a thing talked about 40 years ago, long before anyone thought of AI coding. AI can nowadays make the first 90% of the task very fast and good enough. The last 10% is still the hardest part of coding by far.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule