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AI Coding Assistants Can Help Prevent Burnout
Looking back on my two decades in software development, I can’t help but think about those long nights in corporate offices, where the fluorescent lights buzzed overhead and the coffee machine ran past 8pm.
The days where error messages poured like waterfalls and solutions seemed to exist in some parallel universe we couldn’t quite access.
Those days are long behind me now. As a CTO in the startup space, my relationship with code has evolved dramatically. But the memories (and some would say, traumas) of those corporate all-nighters still live on.
And it got me thinking. What if we had AI coding assistants back then? Would those nights have been different?
The thing is, while I no longer pull those marathon debugging sessions, I’ve found myself becoming an unexpected advocate for AI coding tools in my current role.
Not because they’re revolutionary (though some would argue otherwise), but because they’re surprisingly effective at preventing the kind of burnout I witnessed and experienced throughout my corporate career.
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