I didn’t start because it was trendy. I started because I was tired of the repetitive friction.

I didn’t pick up AI because everyone was talking about it.

I picked it up because I was doing the same kind of work every day.

Writing similar test cases.
Debugging the same API failures.
Reading requirements that looked complete but clearly weren’t.

At some point, it stops being interesting.

AI didn’t change my role. It just removed a lot of the low-value effort that comes with it.

This is how I actually use it now.

I Don’t Start From Zero Anymore

This is the biggest change for me.

Earlier, every feature meant opening a doc and thinking from scratch. What are the scenarios? What can break? What should I validate?

Now I take the requirement and drop it into tools like ChatGPT or Claude and ask for a rough set of:

Functional scenarios

Negative cases

Edge cases