Personally I’m leveling up on using AI to develop a project. My speed at knocking out PRs has increased a lot, but much of that is massaging the process of using AI, including managing CI bottlenecks and costs. I’ve never had to deal with 15+ PRs being developed in parallel before. It’s interesting work, but there’s a lot of doing stuff to get to the stuff I want to do.

Examples of things I’ve tackled this week:

- GitHub Actions costs exploding and looking into self hosting options (gonna try a box in Hetnzer)

- figuring out how to handle unattended builds

- tinkering a lot of email, from how to manage domain reputation and worrying about bots spamming from my server because they started filling out forms

- figuring out how to manage AI development from my phone

- setting up a process to prevent unintended destructive database migrations

- finding a way to know have to babysit the AI but approving a constant stream of questions and permission requests

- all the random little issues that the AI files to fix an endless amount of little things

- finding the right model(s) to use to most efficiently make use of the limits of my subscription

And so on.