Something Big Is Happening

If you work with a computer in any way to put food on the table, you need to be ready for what is happening right now with AI. I’ve only been using AI myself for about 10 months. But now it’s part of just about everything I do dev-wise. I haven’t written a single line of code by hand in over 3 months. In a 300k line of code app I’d say I wrote maybe 5% of it by hand. In just this short time I’ve seen multiple giant leaps in efficiency and productivity. Last February, AI was basically a fancy Google for me. By March, I started coding using AI itself rather than using it as an info source. At first, I had to do a lot of “hand holding” to get AI tools to write the code I needed. Large features still took days, but would have taken weeks by hand as a solo dev. Today, 90% of things are one shots that take 5-10 minutes. I point AI at my code, explain what I need to make or fix, and it just does it. This isn’t bullshit code either. It’s well tested and architected and I don’t even have to…