Why I Use AI for Development

One of the questions I get asked a lot is why do you lean so heavily on AI when building things?
The answer is simple: time.

Traditionally, building software is this long grind, you spend months stitching pieces together, troubleshooting, rewriting, and searching docs for the hundredth time. With AI in my workflow, that timeline collapses. What would’ve taken me months, I can now hammer out in weeks. Sometimes even just days.

It’s not about skipping the hard parts. I still write code, debug, and architect things the same as before. But AI acts as a multiplier. It clears out the repetitive, the boilerplate, and even helps me explore solutions I might not have thought of as quickly.

This means I can go from an idea in my head to a working product in a fraction of the time. Instead of wasting cycles on the things that slow most devs down, I’m shipping projects faster and pushing out updates at a pace that would’ve been impossible a few years ago.

For me, AI isn’t about replacing developers. It’s about empowering them. It’s the difference between dragging a boulder up a hill by hand versus rolling it on wheels. Same work, same hill... but suddenly I can move a whole lot more, a whole lot faster.