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The prototype phase is where AI coding tools shine. Just don’t confuse momentum with maturity. This is Part 1 of a three-part series about building BreakCore, a mobile game that started in Replit and eventually pushed me into a more professional local workflow. (yes there is an inside joke in the app name) Part 1 is the honeymoon phase. Part 2 is where the repo starts confessing. Part 3 is where I become the responsible adult and set up a workflow that future me will not have

AI pair programming tools are landing in our IDEs promising turbo-charged productivity—but do they really deliver? In this post, I unpack where AI copilots shine, where they stumble, and how to make them actually useful in a real engineering team. Spoiler: it's not magic, and it's not replacing you.