
I Work as a Freelancer. My AI Coding Tool Was Making Me Look Bad.
I Work as a Freelancer. My AI Coding Tool Was Making Me Look Bad. I still work as a freelancer. Deadlines. Clients. Code reviews. The whole thing. I use GitHub Copilot every day. Not because it is perfect, but because it is fast. And as a freelancer, fast matters. But somewhere along the way, fast stopped feeling fast. I wasn’t building anymore. I was babysitting. Every session turned into a back and forth. I would ask Copilot for something. It would go in a direction I did not want. I would correct it. It would drift again. I would correct it again. I was not building anymore. I was babysitting. And the worst part? Things slipped through. Not obvious bugs. Subtle things. A component that already existed got rebuilt slightly differently Styling did not match the rest of the project Structure worked in isolation but broke patterns elsewhere I only noticed when someone else did. Code review. Client feedback. That moment where you think: I would never have written it this way myself. That
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