I'm a software engineer I work on a few medium size applications. I've used AI since it came out, but i'm been programming since around 2017. When AI got popular I started out using github copilot but switched to cursor. Mainly used tabs at first then started using composer. Then recently I bought claude. I will still hand code somethings but let AI do more than it should. But honestly the code has turned into a disaster. I feel faster but like going back to change things is getting too complicated.

The last few days I've disabled ai and have been just coding by hand. The code is way simpler but just works and is easy to update/change. I still use AI to look up things when i get stuck or to think about how to set up things. But I feel overwhelmed with all the AI and feel behind not using it. All the code it makes looks good and I've bad at reviewing so usually if it's in the right direction I accept it. I just find it so much more enjoyable and cleaner going by hand. It's slower but I understand quickly how to make changes to the codebase whenever we make changes. Where as the AI generated stuff I'm like trying to figure out what's going on everytime i go back to it. I might go back to tabs, but honestly simpler tabs like github copilot just because I can continue my train of thought. I feel like I'm going backwards though. Anyone relate to this?