A short disclaimer: the message of this post is not “don’t use the AI tools,” but instead “use the AI tools mindfully.” Some time ago, I was working on my simple terminal reminder app remindme (btw, check it out, it’s pretty good and might be useful for you, and it’s FOSS), and it was one of the first times when I could feel the power of the GitHub Copilot assistance: it basically wrote all of the SQL-related code in my project. And my personal reflection: since AI assistants are getting pretty good at writing code, we should invest more time and effort into the skill of reading/reviewing code, as it becomes more and more important these days.