Gemini CLI and Codex have already become daily drivers of my coding sessions. As I said in a previous post, my job was to guide the AI, fix its mistakes, and review its code.
When working in the terminal, I have to babysit the AI all the time, checking which commands it wants to run, correcting its course if it deviates from the task or hallucinates, and many other cases that need my supervision.
I find coding a joy, and the AI Agent steals that fun from me, but well, it is what it is. Getting shit done is what truly matters. I can do recreational programming at home any time. Indeed, that was a rule I had, to not use AI on my hobby and personal projects, but that felt to the ground pretty quickly.
When you keep using a tool on a daily basis, you start to get used to it, and you do miss it later on. Lots of people dislike AI, myself included, as I said, it steals the skill from the skilled. But it works, and it is damm fast. I can’t downplay its importance anymore.
So, this week, I tested Jules, and I was impressed. For web development at least, it felt like a game changer, since I could delegate tasks to it and do other stuff. And the success rate of it was pretty high, which made me happy but a bit scared at the same time, because man, they’ll improve it further and further…
Jules Ironlung
Last weekend, I went on a small trip with my wife, and while we were enjoying our trip, I delegated 3 tasks to Jules. At the end of the day, when I was home, Jules had finished all the tasks, and only one of them I had to make adjustments.
So, during work days, I keep working on some projects, while Jules works on others, and productivity has increased. It feels good to be productive, to ship fast. However, there is this idea that I am digging my own grave, that at some point, they won’t need developers anymore. And again, as I said before, when that happens, I’ll become a software artisan and sell software with a tag “made by humans.”