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I Didn't Plan to Use This Many AI Tools. Here's How It Happened.

Part 2 of 3 in the series “How AI Changed the Way I Build Things” The Moment It Moved Into the IDE In Part 1, I wrote about using ChatGPT as a thinking partner on LongLeavePlanner. Useful. Genuinely useful. But there was still a gap: AI was in a browser tab, and my code was in the IDE (the Integrated Development Environment, the software where you actually write and edit code). Every time I needed help, I was switching contexts. Copy code, paste into chat, read response, switch back. The friction was low enough to be worthwhile, but it was still friction.

Friday, March 20, 2026 Read
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From Stack Overflow to ChatGPT: How I Built My First AI-Assisted Project

Part 1 of 3 in the series “How AI Changed the Way I Build Things” It Wasn’t Magic. It Was a Better Conversation. About two years ago, I paid for a ChatGPT subscription myself. My company wasn’t offering any AI tooling at the time, and that didn’t change until almost the end of 2025. I had this side project idea rattling around in my head, one of those itch-you-can’t-scratch problems, and I figured it was a decent excuse to try out this AI thing everyone was talking about.

Thursday, March 19, 2026 Read