I felt everything in this post quite emphatically until the “but I’m actually faster than the AI.”

Might be my skills but I can tell you right now I will not be as fast as the AI especially in new codebases or other languages or different environments even with all the debugging and hell that is AI pull request review.

I think the answer here is fast AI for things it can do on its own, and slow, composed, human in the loop AI for the bigger things to make sure it gets it right. (At least until it gets most things right through innovative orchestration and model improvement moving forward.)