By skyforbes 
My 3-week experiment with AI pair programming revealed which tool actually saves time (and which one nearly broke my deadline).
So my AI coding assistant crashed. Just completely died. Middle of a sprint, 72 hours before a client demo, half my React components broken.
I’m standing there at 2 AM staring at my laptop and I have this moment where I’m like… okay, I can either have a breakdown or I can do something incredibly stupid and turn this into an experiment.
I chose stupid.
(Looking back, I’m not sure this was the right choice, but here we are.)
The Project That Nearly Killed Me
The project was — okay, imagine if Figma and Discord had a baby. But like, a complicated baby that needs WebSocket connections and canvas rendering and state management that makes Redux look simple.
Why do I keep taking on projects like this? My therapist probably has thoughts.
Anyway, I’m already deep in this when everything crashes. And I realize — wait, this is actually a perfect opportunity to test all these AI…