I'm working on a startup, mostly writing C++, and I'm using AI more and more. In the last month I have one machine running Codex working on task while I work on a different machine.

I have to think like micro-manager, coming up with discrete (and well-defined) tasks for the AI to do, and I periodically review the code to make it cleaner/more efficient.

But I'm confident that it is saving me time. And my love for programming has not diminished. I'm still driving the architecture and writing code, but now I have a helper who makes progress in parallel.

Honestly, I don't want to go back.