Comment by andai

For me the hard part is remembering the "long tail" of the stuff I don't use long enough for my brain to consider it worth putting in the permastore. So I just spend a lot of time googling stuff I already "know" how to do, because the frequency is too low.

It's not hard, it's just bloody annoying. And that's my favorite use of AI so far. Telling it what the code should do, and it translates that into language X's stdlib incantations.

I also find this to be the optimal level of AI usage. If I let the AI run around the codebase doing other stuff, then I need to spend more time and energy later catching up. Whereas, if I stay "in the driver's seat", ask for tiny changes, and approve them manually, the mental model doesn't never gets desynced.