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6/22/2026

What Kind of AI-Assisted Developer Are You? Take the quiz.
Short summary
DEV Community launched a self-assessment quiz categorizing AI-assisted developers into four archetypes—Architect, Balancer, Autopilot Builder, and Passenger—based on ownership, reflection, and dependency patterns. The quiz evaluates habits across debugging, code review, testing, and documentation decisions with personalized feedback. No user data is collected or persisted.
- •Self-assessment quiz segments developers into 4 archetypes based on AI usage patterns
- •Evaluates cognitive dimensions: ownership, reflection, dependency, leverage, verification, speed bias
- •No data collection; provides personalized feedback and improvement recommendations
Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.
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