AI Side Questing: A Mental Framework for Engineers Building in the Age of AI
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Developer introduces "AI Side Questing" - deliberately small, low-stakes projects where you lean heavily into AI to build and learn rapidly. The approach involves time-boxed experiments with no pressure for production quality, allowing developers to explore new languages and tools without fear. While maintaining conservative AI use for main work, these side quests help build intuition for AI tooling and spark creativity.
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