I would understand the comment if there was a commitment.
But here, we’re talking about €20 (the price of a restaurant menu), no commitment, for access for a month to a senior software engineer available 24/7. If we compare this to the total employer cost of a senior developer in France in 2026 (salary, charges, equipment, etc.), we’re talking about a service that would represent €7-11k in value.
I have never seen such an asymmetry between the price paid and the value obtained in the history of software development.
And you talk about speed, I would talk more about quality. Today, I find that AI produces a better result than a human developer, not only on the code itself, but especially on the overall rigor of the project.
The PRs are complete: documentation, specifications, unit tests, linting, migration, etc. Communication is excellent: the title, description, and PR follow-up are updated as development progresses. The AI will also handle a multitude of small details that even a senior developer would often push back on due to lack of time or simply because these tasks are repetitive.
I was very skeptical in the early years because the models simply weren’t up to par. Today, I don’t see many reasons to write code by hand for classic development. In my opinion, this practice will become increasingly marginal.
Most of the companies I frequent already develop mostly with AI (in spec-driven-development).
My prediction is that, within one or two years, writing code entirely by hand will be considered a bad practice in many teams, a bit like we consider it abnormal today not to use a compiler, an IDE, or a version control system. I don’t know if it will be “forbidden,” but I think it will be strongly discouraged.