c1505
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On the very important areas of my life, it is much more helpful that I do something each day to try to make progress. On the busiest or hardest days, this might just be watching 5 minutes of a video on that topic. That keeps up my habit of doing something and makes it less likely that I will forget things.
If I am 100% productive at doing something that isn't important, the result on my life is no progress.
There are many instances where I get to the final part of the feature and realize I spent far more time coercing AI to do the right thing than it would have taken me to do it myself.
It is also sometimes really enjoyable and sometimes a horrible experience. Programming prior to it could also be frustrating at times, but not in the same way. Maybe it is the expectation of increased efficiency that is now demanded in the face of AI tools.
I do think AI tools are consistently great for small POCs or where very standard simple patterns are used. Outside of that, it is a crapshoot or slot machine.