--- title: My first two months using AI | daily.dev description: A developer shares their two-month journey adopting AI tools for coding, writing, and daily tasks. They describe their setup using OpenRouter and OpenCode,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/my-first-two-months-using-ai-02ytnexqk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: My first two months using AI | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares their two-month journey adopting AI tools for coding, writing, and daily tasks. They describe their setup using OpenRouter and OpenCode,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/my-first-two-months-using-ai-02ytnexqk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/02YtNeXqK.png og:image:alt: My first two months using AI 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. # My first two months using AI **[Advanced Web Machinery](https://daily.dev/sources/advancedweb)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares their two-month journey adopting AI tools for coding, writing, and daily tasks. They describe their setup using OpenRouter and OpenCode, experiencing both successes (one-shot implementations, brainstorming system designs) and frustrations (prompt anxiety, review overhead, nondeterministic behavior). AI proved most valuable when the developer already had a mental model and used it to execute tasks, for checking comments and reviewing changes, and for brainstorming system architecture. Coding tasks required significant hand-holding and chunking into smaller subtasks. The experience highlights practical tradeoffs: cost management with per-token pricing, the superiority of AI for contextual search over traditional engines, and usefulness for low-stakes decisions and language learning. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I struggled to code with AI until I learned this workflow](https://daily.dev/posts/i-struggled-to-code-with-ai-until-i-learned-this-workflow-habxlgdyu) · System Design Newsletter · 89 upvotes · 3 comments - [I Let AI Write My Code for 7 Days. Days 1–6 Were Magic. 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