I already jokingly call myself a cyborg. I think I’m in the perfect position to take advantage of AI in my daily workflow. Why? I research all the time because

I already jokingly call myself a cyborg. I think I’m in the perfect position to take advantage of AI in my daily workflow. Why? I research all the time because I find what I do fun. I read books, listen to conference talks, practice synthesizing, and project to explore ideas. (I will say there is a lot of conflicting advise out there so it’s important to try to mentalize the perspective to understand why the particular advise is offered. Anyways, I digress…) I also have ~10 years programming as an IC. Because of what I stated above I know the high level “strategy” of what I’ll want to do and most (if not some) of the implementation details. AI helps me with the “tactics” of implementation. I can ask AI or allow copilot to make implementation suggestions and I know enough to tailor the suggestions to my project (and to my coding preferences). Typically I still cross reference using documentation but using AI has helped reduce the amount of cognitive load required to do something interesting. We live in exciting times as programmers. It’s only going to get better as our tooling becomes more sophisticated.