Developer's month-long hiatus from AI coding tools reveals efficiency illusion and lost control
What happened
作者在几个月里没亲手写过一行代码，连提交信息都让 AI 代劳。他把整张 Jira 工单丢给多个 AI agent 并行干活，结果每个 PR 都要花两天去审查、修风格、补测试，比手写还慢。代码质量持续下滑，得反复提示才能勉强对齐要求，所谓的速度提升只是幻觉，最后人累垮了，对代码也完全失控。
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After a month without AI coding tools, the author looks back: it started with asking AI to write a function, then escalated to feeding entire Jira tickets to multiple agents in parallel. He realized he hadn't written a single line of code or even a commit message himself in months. Every AI-generated PR took two days to review, fix style, and add tests—far longer than doing it manually. Code quality kept dropping, requiring repeated prompting. He calls the perceived speedup an illusion that left him exhausted and disconnected from his own code.
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