AI really helps with those mundane, cog in the wheel things - it not only speeds things up, personally it gives me more momentum/energy to work on the parts that I think are important
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In the thread “AI coding”
Helped: Breaking tasks into smaller chunks and using AI for mundane, repetitive parts of the project.
Got in the way: AI struggles with reusability and context across projects, requiring manual upfront structuring.
… * I have to make it a habit of reading what code it has added - so I understand it and point to it some improvements or rarely fixes (Claude) * Everyone has what they think are uninteresting parts of a project that they have to put effort into to see the bigger project succeed - AI really helps with those mundane, cog in the wheel things - it not only speeds things up, personally it gives me more momentum/energy to work on the parts that I think are important. * It's really bad at reusability - most humans will automatically know oh I have a function I wrote to do this thing in this project which I can use in that project. …