I guess if you never grow that much. I don’t know why you would purposefully handicap yourself by not taking advantage of the tools available. Why make yourself less competitive?
"AI" will help at first, sure, but as it is used more and more, the code will become less and less well-designed and built. My code, on the other hand, will retain full quality, and my long-term velocity will out-pace anyone using those tools.
"A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept." [1]
[1]: https://gist.github.com/gtallen1187/e83ed02eac6cc8d7e185