AI

For a long time, programming was not very interesting for me. Not because it is bad, but because most of the work is routine. In real life, a lot of programming is just writing ordinary code: conditions, config, formatting, basic functions, and other technical stuff. The creative part — thinking about good solutions, architecture, or algorithms — is actually a pretty small part.

Because of that, at some point programming became less interesting to me. I still did it, but without much real excitement.

What changed it for me was AI tools. Over the past few years, tools like Cursor, Claude, Codex, ChatGPT, and Gemini made programming interesting again. AI stopped being just a thing for writing text or summaries. It became a real work tool.

The best part is that it removes a lot of boring routine work. It is not that I cannot write that code myself — I can. It is just not interesting. With these tools, I can focus more on what actually matters: the approach, the structure, the API, and what exactly the system should do.

Of course, AI is not perfect. Sometimes it makes mistakes, overcomplicates things, or writes complete nonsense. But even then, fixing that is often easier and much more pleasant than writing a lot of boring code by hand.

That is why programming started to bring me enjoyment again. Now I can spend less time on routine and more time on ideas, and for me that changed a lot.

Also, it is worth mentioning that most of stuff was dictated by me and then cleaned up and edited by AI.