March 4, 2026 1 minute read

The Main Thing or the Side Things?

We’ve been talking a lot in our organization about whether AI fits best doing the main thing (writing code in our case) or doing the side things (email management, test, documentation, project planning, Jira, etc).

Some vehemently fall into the camp of “AI can’t do what I do, but it can help me with the stuff I don’t want to do.”

Be careful.

I’ve written almost 100k lines of code in 5 weeks. I’ve never written 100k lines of code in a year, let alone 5 weeks.

Get AI working for you, or you’ll be working for AI.


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