AI Driven Development

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Over the past week or so I’ve taken some time off work (for a friends wedding) and found myself with a bit of free time - so I figured I’d work on a side project. The idea of project was still pretty fresh, and I figured that I’d try to lean into using ChatGPT to help me build it out.

Before digging in, I have been thinking more and more about AI as of late, I’m still really new to whats available and how it all works, but I’ve been trying to use the available integrations where I can. I pay for the upgraded version of Notion to use their AI integration (which I honestly haven’t really used all that much yet), I also pay for the upgraded version of Raycast with their AI version (which I’ve so far found to be really direct and straight to the point - I’ll talk a bit more about this later on in the post), and mainly I’ve been using ChatGPT.

I’ve formed some rough thoughts that I wanted to try and put them all into a post on this blog - I may revisit some of these in the future, but we’ll see!

Thoughts on AI in general:

It’s pretty decent, but I feel like I haven’t found a really solid fit for how it can wedge into my workflow. I don’t often need to write creative prose pieces which feels like where it really excels at the moment. However I do want to continue to give it a lot of thought and experimentation. There have definitely been many times where I’ve thought that different workflows that I do for work could be made more efficient, but it feels like no one is exploring them yet (at least not publicly).

A core example that comes to mind, and is also top of mind for me at the moment is an AI backlog assistant.

I want something that crawls our backlog, triages inbound requests, helps us to answer why we approached a problem in a specific way when looking back on it, and also helps us to better understand how we can tackle work.

I feel like this would greatly benefit from being integrated into not only our project tracker, but also Slack and GitHub where we have most conversations and where most of our work happens.