I used AI tools for my entire workday — here's what actually helped
A few weeks ago I decided to do something slightly embarrassing: use AI for literally everything I did in a day. And write down what actually happened. Not because I'm trying to be a productivity content person. I was just genuinely curious. I'm a freelance WordPress developer. My days are a mix of WooCommerce builds, client emails, debugging whatever plugin decided to break this week, and trying to study before college the next morning. If AI was useful anywhere, I figured it'd show up somewhere in that mess. What actually worked Client emails. Not writing them from scratch — I still do that — but editing rough drafts. I'd write something, paste it in, ask Claude to tighten it without making it sound corporate. One pass, usually enough. I stopped sitting on follow-up emails for three days out of vague dread. Code explanations saved me a lot of tab-switching. I hit a WooCommerce hook I'd never used while integrating a payment gateway. Instead of digging throug...