AI makes us faster, but does it make us better engineers, or just more dependent?

As a follow-up to my post on the The 4 Cognitive Archetypes of Developers Using AI, I wanted to created a quiz as a self-assessment for AI-assisted development habits.

My previous post sparked many interesting discussions and insights. I took some of those elements and put together a series of questions to help evaluate how you are using AI as a developer.

The 4 Archetypes include:

AI Architect: owns the problem, uses AI as leverage

AI Balancer: productive with AI, still protects judgment

Autopilot Builder: fast, but may accept output too quickly

AI Passenger: lets AI do too much of the cognitive work

This assessment scores answers across dimensions:

• ownership
• reflection
• dependency
• leverage
• verification
• speed bias

The questions are based on everyday engineering decisions:

• debugging production issues
• reviewing AI-generated code
• writing tests
• refactoring
• working with unfamiliar libraries
• explaining AI-assisted PRs
• documenting complex changes

Here is my Cognitive Archetype for example:

Each results page also displays a breakdown of associated strengths and weaknesses and recommended actions to improve your cognitive score.

Here are my results:

I want to clarify that I am not collecting or persisting any user data as part of this project. It's just a small tool I wanted to share to keep the conversation going and hopefully inspire some of you.

You can take the quiz here and share which archetype you got!