Fuck AI

Ahhhhhhhh look at me I’ve lost the ability to read code!!!

Pretending that skill atrophy isn't a real issue doesn't make it go away. The more a developer outsources his brain to an LLM, the more skills they lose over time. I experienced it first hand, because I wasn't always so strictly against "AI" and used it extensively for many months. But I noticed that I wasn't able to solve pretty simple coding tasks after a while anymore, tasks which were second nature to me before. Anyone who mindlessly boosts AI without even taking this into consideration, isn't a good developer.

I still code better than most of my juniors.

This statement is a nothingburger. You can't hype yourself up to make yourself more legitimate, anyone can just claim things on the internet. In order to assess if you are truly a good coder, another senior who doesn't use AI would have to look over your code. The results might surprise you.

I'll leave it at that, you completely jumped on the hypetrain, you aren't even interested in a real discussion and my time is too valuable to spend it on such trivialities. I just feel sorry for the juniors working under your management and I hope you'll not be out of a job when OpenAI, Anthropic and all of the other big "AI" companies eventually go down the drain.