> Using AI to go faster is optimizing the wrong thing. At every place I've worked, the "code writing" part takes the least amount of time, compared to all the other things you need to do in order to implement a feature.

This reminds me of one of my software engineering axioms:

  When making software, remember that it is a snapshot of 
  your understanding of the problem.  It states to all, 
  including your future-self, your approach, clarity, and 
  appropriateness of the solution for the problem at hand.  
  Choose your statements wisely.

> So here's a feature that took, what, maybe two months from design to release, and we're falling all over ourselves to optimize the part that took a day so that it takes 5 minutes instead...

Well said.