--- title: Where AI saves me time and where it slows me down description: A Webflow engineer shares a candid account of how AI has reshaped his daily workflow. AI dramatically speeds up the early stages of work — context gathering,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/where-ai-saves-me-time-and-where-it-slows-me-down-fuxjk6qxr twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Where AI saves me time and where it slows me down | daily.dev og:description: A Webflow engineer shares a candid account of how AI has reshaped his daily workflow. AI dramatically speeds up the early stages of work — context gathering,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/where-ai-saves-me-time-and-where-it-slows-me-down-fuxjk6qxr og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fuXjk6QXR.png og:image:alt: Where AI saves me time and where it slows me down 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. # Where AI saves me time and where it slows me down **[The New Stack](https://daily.dev/sources/newstack)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A Webflow engineer shares a candid account of how AI has reshaped his daily workflow. AI dramatically speeds up the early stages of work — context gathering, scaffolding, and generating first drafts — especially when connected to real tools via MCP. However, the bottleneck has shifted from creation to verification: reviewing generated code, validating assumptions, ensuring tests are meaningful, and owning what gets shipped. A secondary effect is that AI makes it too easy to start too much work, creating PR backlogs and coordination overhead. The core insight is that AI moves time rather than eliminates it, and the hard parts of engineering — judgment, ownership, sequencing — remain firmly human responsibilities. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI made me more productive. Why am I busier than ever?](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-made-me-more-productive-why-am-i-busier-than-ever--qbgids67s) · LeadDev · 1 upvotes · 1 comments - [AI writes code faster. 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