AI Got Better While I Was Away — But Did We Get Dumber? A Developer's Honest Audit of What AI Actually Replaced vs. What It Just Made Lazy
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Originally published on tamiz.pro . Two years ago, I could not make a Copilot suggestion pass code review without rewrites. Today, half my PRs ship with AI-generated code that I barely edited. The tooling genuinely got better. The question nobody asks honestly is whether I got worse at the underlyi…
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- 2026-10-09 18:01 · DEV Community — AI
AI Got Better While I Was Away — But Did We Get Dumber? A Developer's Honest Audit of What AI Actually Replaced vs. What It Just Made Lazy