After people get a few months of seeing the impact of AI-induced slop in their codebases, and the resulting slowdown this incurs, I predict we're going to see a mass reversion back to "handwritten" code. TBH I'm feeling it myself some days. I'm actually faster with Cursor tab and just nailing what needs to happen. AI has a terrible habit of spending time on things that just don't matter. Might be more "work", but in terms of clock time, I'm getting things done more quickly without involving token inference. Maybe I'm weird. Maybe this is a terrible prediction (as things frequently are with things that change so quickly), but in this case I've been observing my behavior and others for months and I'm seeing a slow steady trickle back to the "old ways".