What are you working on? What’s most challenging, interesting about the work or the problem?<p>Are you using any AI tools? What does your setup/workflow look like? Where do you find it most useful/ least useful.<p>What other tools are you looking to further explore/excited about?<p>As for me —
I am currently working on building data pipelines, merging data from various sources into our database, finally mapping the data to our entities.
The work is pretty straightforward, not very challenging.<p>The most exciting part for me is just exploring the patterns to build out the solution.
I have built integrations 4 times, ground up, until now. Always with a different data processing pattern goal in mind.<p>And here I find the copilot very useful, the threshold of picking a goal, that is learning about various ways of achieving the same end product goal with different constraints.<p>I don’t enjoy the `chat`, I don’t use `auto-test` generation, I sometimes use the `explain`, and I am truly grateful for the autopilot when it comes to remembering the syntax.<p>On the other hand, when I am in the flow, and stop to think about something, I find the autopilot auto-compete to be distracting, and often it’s just more work to review the code it suggests.
Now, this could be my shortcomings/skill-gaps, I am open to accept that, have not thought about it quite deeply.<p>Apart from copilot, I use Claude, to generate throwaway code, and the quick scripts.<p>I am not using any other tools, I keep exploring though, but didn’t find utility in paying up for other copilots/coworkers/ai-tools.<p>Non AI-tool that I am trying these days is Zed editor.<p>After working as a full-stack for quite some years now, the next technology I want to work on is database.<p>Not sure how long it would take, but I want to switch domain to becoming a database developer, and hopefully with copilot reducing the threshold of experimentation, I might finally be able to!