It right-clicked for me

Blast from the past. I remember people talking about the game back in college

I work as a glorified code monkey. It feels faster, sort of, in fits and starts.

When I start working on a task, the AI tooling almost feels like it’s doing the job for me. It picks out the relevant part of the code base, makes changes in the right places, and even updates tests.

Assuming that part all went well, the waiting game begins.

Either run the “git” AI prompt or do it by hand. The prompt way has some nice bells and whistles in how it formats commit messages , but

It’s

Just

So

Slow!

Then, either way, my commit goes. Now I wait for the auto build and test pipeline, the code scanner job, and copilot’s review pass. Sometimes it brings up helpful things, sometimes it raises silly objections.

Then, ok, I think it looks good. I need approval from a busy coworker to actually click merge, so I send a link to the chat and hope someone isn’t too busy.

Once I get that approval, it’s wait again for a build agent to deploy my changes.

Now, hours later (sometimes the next day), I can load it up and see my change reflected in our test environment.

The wheels sure are spinning, but I can’t say for sure that we’re going any faster.