Last month, I let AI “help” me refactor a small but performance-critical bit of frontend code. It confidently gave me a clean, modern solution. Types checked, tests were green, and the code looked nicer than what I’d written before. I merged it.
Two days later, a user reported that a key interaction was randomly failing. Turned out the bug was subtle, intermittent, and 100% introduced by that AI-generated snippet. The worst part: the code looked so reasonable that my brain just rubber-stamped it.
This is how AI is in my workflow now: incredibly useful, occasionally dangerous, and something I treat more like a junior teammate than a trusted source of truth.
Tools in my day-to-day workflow
Here’s what I actually use as a JavaScript/web dev working on real projects:
