Most of my work has happened in Windsurf and Claude Code over recent weeks. I can picture a future where I'm essentially an LLM manager—keeping code-generation plates spinning and nudging toddling bots away from falling into ditches.

Some folks claim they play games while the agent codes, but I'm actively reviewing as it writes. Turns out watching a bot write code for you takes surprising mental effort. 😅

As I get deeper into this, I'm still processing the skeptical pushback. I know I'm drawn to novelty and clever tricks, so I'm trying to temper my enthusiasm and engage seriously with contrary opinions.

Some people haven't had success with these tools, but "you're holding it wrong" is a bad response that doesn't address the real objections. I'm having concrete wins personally, but figuring out the precise how and why feels elusive—too many variables and RNG elements to be properly scientific about it.

My main stake in AI coding is that it's what I'm paid to do right now in this industry. I am also rather fascinated with the stuff. Not exactly an unbiased position, but at least I'm not trying to sell anything other than my time & labor.

I've seen arguments that this could all be Stockholm syndrome and excuse-making for the machine. Others warn that I shouldn't trust my own judgment on AI because I'm essentially self-dosing with cognitohazards.

The more antagonistic responses make me sympathize with the guy who says his AI skeptic friends are all nuts—which feels like tit-for-tat, since accusations of mental instability seem to flow both ways.

Honestly, I can also relate to just being done thinking about the whole thing for now. But, personally, I don't think I can afford to do that.