30+ years of coding, obsolete. But at least my workflow is now all in one place.

A software engineer with over 30 years of experience, proficient in practices like SOLID, DRY, TDD, and DevOps, found their traditional workflow obsolete due to the demands of AI. The engineer, who previously used CoPilot in VSCode and then Claude CLI, struggled with managing multiple projects and branches across various applications and terminals. This shift to AI workflows, particularly with "windows everywhere," made it impossible to maintain productivity and led to a "nightmare" of switching between IDEs, terminals, and OS explorers.

This account highlights how AI workflows, unlike traditional development, can exacerbate existing pain points like app-switching, even for experienced engineers.