I have been a senior developer for over a decade, and I now run a small...
Saro-Wiwa ife@ifesaro-wiwa4049
23 days ago
I have been a senior developer for over a decade, and I now run a small agency. I saw the hype and honestly, I was scared at first. But after using tools like Copilot and Claude for the last year, here is my real take.
The biggest change for me isnt that AI writes better code or replaces me. It is that AI has completely destroyed the time I used to spend on boilerplate and repetitive tasks. I remember spending two full days writing a complex SQL migration with all the rollback scripts. My junior developer did the same thing in 4 hours using Cursor just last week. That freed him up to actually think about the edge cases and data validation, which is the part that actually matters.
But here is the thing nobody talks about. AI is making the first 80% of a task incredibly fast. The problem is that last 20% the debugging, the edge cases, the weird dependency conflicts. That part is still all you. And worse, because you generated the first 80% so fast, you might not deeply understand the code. When something breaks in production at 2 AM, the AI is not going to help you. You have to know your system cold.
My advice? Use AI like a really fast intern. Let it write the first draft, handle the boring stuff, and even suggest test cases. But never commit code you do not fully understand. Read every line it writes. If you do that, you will be twice as productive. If you just blindly accept, you will be in trouble.
11 days ago