How AI is changing my workflow
Less typing, more deciding. Where the tools actually help and where they still don't.
12 / 02 / 251 min read
The thing nobody warns you about is how much taste matters once the typing gets cheap. When you can generate ten versions of a component in a minute, the bottleneck moves to picking the right one — and that's a skill that doesn't show up on a benchmark.
What's actually changed for me:
- First drafts are throwaway by default. I generate one, read it, and usually rewrite half of it. Faster than starting blank.
- Boilerplate is gone. Form validation, type plumbing, route handlers — I don't write those by hand anymore.
- Reviewing my own diffs got harder. Code I didn't type is code I have to actually read. So I keep PRs small.
What hasn't changed: the parts that require holding the whole system in your head. Architecture. The reason for a choice. The bug you can't reproduce. Those are still slow, and I don't think the tools are close to fixing that.