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The benefits of writing code two days every week without AI, and why the percentage of code written by AI is a vanity metric.

Sarah Tavel · 20 Aug 2025

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  1. I get the desire to show how much they are embracing AI by reporting on this, but if you optimize for this metric, you won’t be motivated to edit the extreme amounts of code the AI creates, creating challenges in the future.

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