I'm a very skeptical person - especially when it comes to technologies that sound too good to be true. So in 2025 when everyone was really hyping up AI and the age of AI coding, I wasn't convinced.
I had tried messing around with it here and there, but the performance gains of using AI didn't really meet my expectations that would justify picking it up as a part of my daily stack. It required a lot of babysitting - giving it the right context, explaining what I wanted exactly, and going back and forth several times to steer it the way I wanted. It was much faster to just implement things myself.
Then I came across Claude Code in early 2026. I was impressed. I quickly adopted it into my daily stack and I've been obsessed ever since. My attitude towards AI has shifted quite a bit since then.
I'm still a skeptical person. There are a lot of bold claims out there about AI that I don't necessarily resonate with and I still think there's a lot of exaggerated hype of AI from people that don't fully understand it. I'm not claiming that I understand it, but I know when to reserve my judgement.
What's different in my opinion of AI now is that I now understand the value it brings to me and my workflow. And that value is no longer zero.