Comment by bobjordan

Coding with AI is just a different kind of work than what those of us that coded before AI are used to doing. But, reading and understanding the code AI produces is required for anything complex. I had an inventory control app that I started five years ago without AI and picked the project back up this year. I had like 15-20 database tables in the app when I started with AI this year. Now, I have a "platform" database, a "tenant" database, about 125 tables in the tenant database and 30 in the platform database, full test suite that integrates both databases, like 100 services, etc., it would have taken me *YEARS AND YEARS* to do what I've done in the last 90 days with AI assistance. The biggest challenge has just been keeping up with all the code output and ensuring no technical debt accrues and it is all leveraging existing code. Ultimately, you have to understand what you've already built to ensure the AI uses it instead of constantly reinventing it. But, generating what would have taken years of my life in a few months? PRICELESS.