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> If you haven’t had a mind blown moment with AI yet, you aren’t doing it right or are anchoring in what you know vs discovering new tech.

Or your job isn't what AI is good at?

AI seems really good at greenfield projects in well known languages or adding features.

It's been pretty awful, IME, at working with less well-known languages, or deep troubleshooting/tweaking of complex codebases.

> It's been pretty awful, IME, at working with less well-known languages, or deep troubleshooting/tweaking of complex codebases.

This is precisely my experience.

Having the AI work on a large mono repo with a front-end that uses a fairly obscure templating system? Not great.

Spinning up a greenfield React/Vite/ShadCN proof-of-concept for a sales demo? Magic.

> It's been pretty awful, IME, at working with less well-known languages

Well, there’s your problem. You should have selected React while you had the chance.