L1 · Chat-Assisted Developer

The Relay

You consult AI in a chat and copy code back by hand.

A strong classic engineer who has tasted AI — but only as a chat buddy. No agents, no repo integration. The project lives in your head, not in the agent's context. This is the starting line of the reform, not a bad place to be.

What this level looks like

• ▹You paste code in and out of ChatGPT / Claude web
• ▹Up to ~50% of code touches AI, but as copy-paste
• ▹No MCP, skills, or plan-before-code
• ▹You work solo on your task — deep but narrow