My thoughts turn to the analogy of a car.
A car can travel at 140mph. But if I went that fast I’d drive into a wall. Driving at the maximum speed of the car is counter-productive. Instead, I have to remain at human-compatible speed.
AI codes at 140mph. I believe that’s not human-compatible. Perhaps we will find a way to harness that speed; to make it human-compatible. More likely we will find that certain tasks can go that fast, and others can’t. 140mph is okay on a race track but not on a back street.
We do not have to force ourselves to adapt to the speed AI can generate code at. We do not have to travel at theoretical maximums. Driving at normal speeds is still much faster than walking. In the same way, we can write code faster with AI help, even if that help is not at top speed.
If we don’t insist on top speed, AI code might even be better than we’d write alone.
Wouldn’t that be nice?