In One Year I Went from AI Skeptic to AI Pilled
In One Year I Went from AI Skeptic to AI PilledOctober 2, 2026 · 7 min readWilliam JohnsonLast year (in 2025), I left my job at little known tech giant, Google, and looked to build software that I thought mattered. Back then (in 2025), I used a bit of GitHub Copilot and found their output lacking. So for the most part I wrote most of my code by hand.
- ▪In One Year I Went from AI Skeptic to AI PilledOctober 2, 2026 · 7 min readWilliam JohnsonLast year (in 2025), I left my job at little known tech giant, Google, and looked to build software that I thought mattered.
- ▪Back then (in 2025), I used a bit of GitHub Copilot and found their output lacking.
- ▪So for the most part I wrote most of my code by hand.
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| Publication time | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:29:28 +0000 |
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In One Year I Went from AI Skeptic to AI PilledOctober 2, 2026 · 7 min readWilliam JohnsonLast year (in 2025), I left my job at little known tech giant, Google, and looked to build software that I thought mattered. Back then (in 2025), I used a bit of GitHub Copilot and found their output lacking. So for the most part I wrote most of my code by hand. Earlier this year, I had a friend tell me that Claude Code changed everything, so I started to use that, and it produced very good code, very consistently. I slowly, over months changed my stance on coding by hand. Forced to Agentic code So, back in March of this year (2026) I got hit by a car and broke my collarbone. It was my own fault, so no shade to the driver.
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