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> I believe people who claim that it makes them faster or more productive are making a conscious decision to relax their quality standards to achieve those gains.

Yep, this is pretty much it. However, I honestly feel that AI writes so much better code than me that I seldom need to actually fix much in the review, so it doesn't need to be as thorough. AI always takes more tedious edge-cases into account and applies best practices where I'm much sloppier and take more shortcuts.



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