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date: 2025-01-28
description: "I realized that I've been holding myself back because of pride."
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tags: ["AI", "Reflection"]
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title: "AI Hesitation Turning Around"
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and potential legal issues in its future. I see it partly destroying the craft of software engineering. I think its
very over hyped.
_BUT_
## BUT
I think its time I give up fighting against the machine in this respect and see if using AI
as a tool in my toolbelt helps me become a better engineer.
as a tool in my tool belt helps me become a better engineer.
## The Pivot Point
# The Pivot Point
I read [this blog post](https://blog.nelhage.com/post/personal-software-with-claude/) about building personal software
with Claude and I realized that perhaps I could better my life and those around me by taking advantage of this tool. Was
it just stubbornness and pride that was preventing me from benefitting? You may think its just FOMO, but I've held off
it just stubbornness and pride that was preventing me from benefiting? You may think its just FOMO, but I've held off
for a long time from using AI.[^1] I think it is just a recognition of my hard-headed and misplaced judgement. So, today
I am signing up for a Claude account. I'm going to build with AI (I'm not going to write these posts with it though). As
this new perspective settled in my mind, I had a couple thoughts:
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waxed wings and plummet to my death, but I figure its never a bad idea to keep my mind open and give it a year.
[^1]: Not entirely. My best guess is I've queried ChatGPT less than 50 times. I have used it over the last two years as a Google
Search replacement occassionally. When AI was first released I tried it with some coding / reasoning tasks and formed
Search replacement occasionally. When AI was first released I tried it with some coding / reasoning tasks and formed
most of my opinion from that experience.