AI is integrated and leveraged in almost every aspect of my work now. I use Claude daily to assist with my development, the same way I lean on a framework, a library, or a good answer on Stack Overflow. It's one more tool that helps me get from an idea to something that runs.
It hasn't changed what I care about, which is shipping things that actually work. It's changed how fast I can get there.
The practical upside is that I can take on more as one person. Builds that used to need a small team are now something I can scope, prototype, and ship on my own.
Here's how that looks day to day, and where I don't hand things off.
I don't hand off the thinking. AI is fast, but it doesn't know what's worth building, where the real risk is, or when it's confidently wrong. Those calls are mine.
So I read what it writes, I own the system end to end, and I stay responsible for the result. It speeds up the work. It doesn't replace the judgment behind it.