I’m developing a personal project and I often use chat only AI customized to give me short answers, some times just to throw some ideas that then I’ll search on the web later. Other times to help me troubleshoot problems, NEVER to write code.

I don’t use it to write neither index my code base, it’s just arbitrary questions when needed.

I use it in a consulting basis maybe 20 prompts a day, 3-4 days a week. I’m on process of learning a new language and framework so the more I learn the less I use it. I’ve read books already and saw a few tutorial videos, but for real life projects things are way different and to troubleshoot some issues you need a more complex guidance that consider contexts that most of the time a simple search on the internet won’t help.

If the project goes well, I plan to add an AI note on my project explaining how it was used, I wonder how people feel about it, especially the anti-AI people. I’ll also block any AI code-generation contribution, since I’m not using any as well, and I don’t accept it in any way, I think every AI code (if used) need to pass through an human mind to be analyzed and be taken the best decision about it.

I’m using open-source models for that (Qwen).