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2:11 · 28 September 2026

How much of your code do you write with AI?

Key concepts in this video:

1. AI Usage in Coding and Testing

Speakers share how much code they write using AI, mentioning percentages and specific use cases like unit tests, scaffolding, code exploration, and understanding concepts while maintaining personal control over the implementation.

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How much of your code do you write with AI? How much is stold by hand? 100% by hand. Wow. But I get AI to explain the concepts and so I I build it with AI. Or I ask it, why how does this work? How does this? How can I break this function down? So on a daily basis, um it's more because it's more of a mandate. So everything has to go through AI checks. Um, and I use it a lot for making unit tests at the moment. Awesome. But I try to not use it so much for the actual coding. So how much code would you say you'll write with AI? Presenter, everybody's bragging about. I'd say about 30%? 30%, yeah. Awesome. Awesome. I mean, it depends, depends on what I'm doing. Um, I try to use it extensively for writing tests for scaffolty things, um, for getting familiar with the code base, um, And for read only and and exploring. Yeah. And then a bit less when implementing things, I try to use it, you know, kind of a targeted way, like try to isolate things to particular line, to a particular file, whenever possible, right? Um, to have a little bit more control. So you're kind of guiding it and it doesn't guide your implementation. Yeah, I I try to do it very guided. Me being the one who's guiding everything 100%. I would say, okay, so if I have to do front end work, I'll do it a hundred so. So I still use AI to help here um. I think if you give to like a rough number, a rough number, I'd say 20% what's handwritten. Wow, 20% is so 80% is AI. Yes, it's absolutely. Most people say 99 95, so it's a good Well, I got to do mix of back end and front end work. But I always opt to do it 100 because I know if you use it too much it can dull your skills. I'm very aware of that. That's one of my main complaints for my previous job where they had us using it all the time.