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Here’s What I Actually Do With My Time. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Writes My Code Now. Here’s What I Actually Do With My Time. **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 26 upvotes · 8 comments ## Summary A developer reflects on how AI now writes most of their code and reframes their own role around five practices: writing precise prompts as specs, reviewing AI output critically like a junior dev's PR, supplying real-world user context AI lacks, owning system architecture, and testing for chaotic edge cases. The core argument is that coding was never the real job — thinking, judgment, and problem framing were always the actual value a developer provides. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@elmarchavez** · 1 upvotes > Good points. I hope people are doing these steps responsibly. If not, well we already know what could happen. **@ahmetozel** · 1 upvotes > Writing precise prompts as specs and reviewing output like a junior's PR are doing quite different work, and the first is the harder skill. A spec precise enough to generate from is precise enough to test, which is why that practice pays off even when you end up writing the code yourself. > > > The part I would push on is the junior-PR analogy. A junior's mistakes correlate with their experience, so you learn where to look. Model mistakes do not correlate that way: it can nail the concurrency and then invent a config key. Review has to stay uniformly suspicious rather than targeted, which is... **@ahmetozel** · 1 upvotes > Writing precise prompts as specs and reviewing output like a junior's PR are doing quite different work, and the first is the harder skill. A spec precise enough to generate from is precise enough to test, which is why it pays off even when you end up writing the code yourself. The part I would push on is the junior-PR analogy: a junior's mistakes correlate with their experience, so you learn where to look, while model mistakes do not correlate that way. It can nail the concurrency and then invent a config key, so review stays uniformly suspicious instead of targeted. **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > The login spec should say what happens when guest data conflicts with an existing account. I'd ask the product owner which copy to keep. Then I'd put that exact case in the acceptance tests. **@fabooy961** · 0 upvotes > has anyone tried maintaining an OF account while ai does the coding? > >  ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Medium](https://daily.dev/posts/medium-auvxaaqlq) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I rarely use AI to write code, but here's how it improves my coding workflow](https://daily.dev/posts/i-rarely-use-ai-to-write-code-but-here-s-how-it-improves-my-coding-workflow-jyjtuxvvk) · XDA Developers · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [How do developers define their worth when code is written by AI?](https://daily.dev/posts/how-do-developers-define-their-worth-when-code-is-written-by-ai--iymk1sc7n) · Christian Heilmann · 4 upvotes · 1 comments - [AI and the Demand for Developers](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-and-the-demand-for-developers-bb6i7hlys) · Atomic Spin · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-writes-my-code-now-here-s-what-i-actually-do-with-my-time--r53wrdkhc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"AI Writes My Code Now. 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A spec precise enough to generate from is precise enough to test, which is why that practice pays off even when you end up writing the code yourself.\nThe part I would push on is the junior-PR analogy. A junior’s mistakes correlate with their experience, so you learn where to look. Model mistakes do not correlate that way: it can nail the concurrency and then invent a config key. Review has to stay uniformly suspicious rather than targeted, which is genuinely more tiring than reviewing a person.","datePublished":"2026-09-21T05:54:09.878Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/r53WRdkhc#c-G6VzDSefB","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ahmet Özel","url":"https://daily.dev/ahmetozel","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/70992231?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"Writing precise prompts as specs and reviewing output like a junior’s PR are doing quite different work, and the first is the harder skill. A spec precise enough to generate from is precise enough to test, which is why it pays off even when you end up writing the code yourself. The part I would push on is the junior-PR analogy: a junior’s mistakes correlate with their experience, so you learn where to look, while model mistakes do not correlate that way. It can nail the concurrency and then invent a config key, so review stays uniformly suspicious instead of targeted.","datePublished":"2026-09-21T05:55:39.875Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/r53WRdkhc#c-pJBCxoBf4","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Ahmet Özel","url":"https://daily.dev/ahmetozel","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/70992231?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"The login spec should say what happens when guest data conflicts with an existing account. I’d ask the product owner which copy to keep. Then I’d put that exact case in the acceptance tests.","datePublished":"2026-09-24T20:19:04.131Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/r53WRdkhc#c-Om4zrhiNr","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Agustin Barrientos","url":"https://daily.dev/agustinbarrientos","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--5ayxQnqn--/f_auto/v1788281802/avatars/avatar_wQYYVe5Tbj0NJ7C7qPoa8?_a=BAMAMicg0"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"has anyone tried maintaining an OF account while ai does the coding?","datePublished":"2026-09-30T18:02:32.759Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/r53WRdkhc#c-cmy3X4qq0","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Le Fä De Le Lö","url":"https://daily.dev/fabooy961","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/v1677218265/avatars/avatar_H6lLM2y9S4Yf8VCWicpd8.jpg"}}]} ```