Weekly AI Observations: Coding at 3× Speed and the Counterintuitive Tradeoffs

This week a teammate and I ran a deep experiment: we handed almost the entire coding workload of a new project to AI. The outcome was stunning—we wrapped up in a single week what normally takes us three. Yet behind that unprecedented velocity were a few counterintuitive truths that quickly surfaced. The Cost of Efficiency and Cognition on Overdrive When coding hits three times its usual speed, the…