If I could sit down with myself in 2020 and talk straight for an hour, most of it would be about what not to spend time on. Here’s the short version.

AI-assisted coding is genuinely useful until the moment it isn’t, and the problem is you won’t see that line coming until you’ve already crossed it.

I set up an auto-writer plugin to generate posts for Knuckledust Chronicles using a detailed document about my life. What I got back was technically accurate and weirdly hollow — and that gap taught me something I wasn’t expecting.

AI tools can absolutely earn a place in your workflow, but only after you’ve learned which questions they’ll confidently get wrong. Here’s what took me too long to figure out.

Switching from ChatGPT to Claude wasn’t about which AI is smarter. It was about figuring out what I actually need from a tool versus what I’d just gotten used to.

After six months of GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT in my daily workflow, I’ve learned when AI coding tools help and when they hurt. The results might surprise you.