I Talk to AI While I Code. Here's What Works, What Fails, and Where I Stop.

I'll be honest. A year ago, if you told me I'd be having full conversations with an AI while building features at work, I would have laughed. Not because I didn't believe the tech was coming, but because I didn't think it would actually be useful in the messy, context-heavy, "why is this CSS not working" reality of day-to-day development. I was wrong. I now use AI tools almost every day. Not as a replacement for thinking, but as something closer to a really fast colleague who never gets annoyed when I ask dumb questions at 11 PM. But I've also learned where it falls apart, where it confidently leads you off a cliff, and where I personally choose to not use it at all. What Actually Works Let me start with the stuff that has genuinely changed how I work. Not in a "this is the future" hype way, but in a "this saved me 45 minutes today" way. Debugging Partner This is the single biggest win. When I'm staring at an error message that makes no sense, or a component that renders fine locally b