Coding with AI - It Speeds You Up and Then Slows You Down

I have been coding with AI assistance for about six months now and more actively since late December 2025. If I had to compress the entire experience into a single sentence, it would be this: AI made me faster first and then it made me slower. Let me explain. How I Started Like most people, I began small. I needed a specific customization in a plot generated by ggplot. Instead of going through…