My experience with AI-driven and AI-assisted development so far is that it has actually enhanced my workflow despite how much I dislike it.

With a caveat.

If you were to compare my workflow to a decade ago, you wouldn’t see much difference other than my natural skill growth.

The rub is that the tools, communities and services I learned to rely on over my career as a developer have been slowly getting worse and worse, and I have found that I can leverage AI tools to make up for where those resources now fall short.