It’s 8:47 AM, fresh coffee steams on the table, and my headphones cocoon me in the perfect playlist. I go to Asana, where I know exactly what I need to do that day. I open Neovim and code starts flowing through me. I’ve lost the sense of time; I’m completely present in the moment.
That, my friends, is what I used to describe as a happy work day. I’m sure that some of you will resonate.
Those days I’d emerge tired but fulfilled. Something about the direct connection between thought and creation — where my fingers were simply the conduit for translating ideas into working software — felt almost transcendent. The struggle to solve problems, the small victories along the way, and the satisfaction of building something from nothing… these weren’t just aspects of the job; they were the reason I fell in love with programming in the first place.
I’ve been using Cursor for a few months now. I tried it out a few times and this experience led to me cancelling my Claude subscription.
I’ve mostly been using LLM tools for university reports and code, sometimes suggestions, or writing official e-mails, checking grammar.
The idea of people using ChatGPT as their companion scares me. This is literally an optimized algorithm. An incredible one indeed, but mystifying it is crazy work.
It is good for writing boilerplate code, sometimes for suggesting simple, local optimizations, or simple extensions.
I’ve become a curator instead of the force driving the code during some moments. To quote this article read by the Primeagen reading an article on AI “Sorry, I’ll be prompting tomorrow.”
It is not even at a great level yet, even with the context window and a better prompt. The TypeScript features are not always respected, and its tencency to always agree with the user is not
Secondly, as long as there are clients who cannot define their own needs and requirements, AI is not going to replace people in the tech industry.