Comment by pierredemilly

This is not my experience with AI at all. The best thing that happened to me as a solo developer in a startup is Copilot in the Github mobile app.

I now spend most of my time at the park, in the subway or just in my bed, thinking about my app, my code, my roadmap, etc.

Since I have outsourced the actual writing and debugging of code to Copilot, I can focus my brain energy on actual thinking. And when I finish thinking, I take out my phone, write a GH issue, assign it to Copilot, and resume my thought process. ~20 minutes later, I check my phone again and read the PR.

In some cases, I just close it because it's not what I had in mind. In most cases, it's very good and starts me thinking again. After some time, I write my review. Rinse and repeat.

And once in a while, I'll sit at my desk to actually test the code, tweak some stuff and deploy.

I have never been this happy as a developer.