I use AI every day. Sometimes to fix a bug that’s been staring at me sideways for hours, other times to write a more civil message after yet another failed build. I’m not “against AI”. On the contrary, it’s already part of the daily workflow for almost all of us. The problem isn’t the tool. It’s the role we’re giving it. I’m not worried about AI becoming smarter than us. What worries me much more is us stopping to think before we even use it. ...
You haven’t lived staging hell until your bug report gets closed because “it works on my seed data.” We’ve all been there. Shared staging environments, overwritten rows, test users with weird states, migrations colliding mid-QA. The closer you get to release, the more fragile everything feels. And the more often you hear, “Well it passed locally…” The problem isn’t just the code. It’s that we’re still treating databases like fixed, singular planets in a branching galaxy of dev and test environments. ...
At some point last month, I realized I hadn’t opened a “real” app in days. No calendar app. No separate to-do manager. No Word, no Excel, no IDE even, just a browser, a keyboard, and Notion with GPT whispering in the sidebar. Sometimes Obsidian. Sometimes ChatGPT itself. Always something that blurred the line between note-taking and system-building. It started as an experiment: could I run my whole digital life from just notes and AI? ...