Comment by cbsmith

There's an implied assumption here that code you write yourself doesn't need to be reviewed from a context different from the author's.

There's an old expression: "code as if your work will be read by a psychopath who knows where you live" followed by the joke "they know where you live because it is future you".

Generative AI coding just forces the mindset you should have had all along: start with acceptance criteria, figure out how you're going to rigorously validate correctness (ideally through regression tests more than code reviews), and use the review process to come up with consistent practices (which you then document so that the LLM can refer to it).

It's definitely not always faster, but waking up in the morning to a well documented PR, that's already been reviewed by multiple LLMs, with successfully passing test runs attached to it sure seems like I'm spending more of my time focused on what I should have been focused on all along.