“I fear the software industry is taking on a large amount of cognitive debt that we’ll have to pay back very soon.”
Sethi types out every line the model suggests instead of accepting the diff, and puts his real speedup at 2x. That number is the useful part of the post. The vendors selling 10x are counting keystrokes saved, not code anyone on the team understands. The bill comes due the first time production breaks and nobody can read the file.