Every developer experiences a split personality when tackling a list of to dos fora project or a product. Some tasks are:

• I love to-dos,
• I wanted to-dos
• And then there are, just my to-dos.

We naturally start with what we love: a core solution we believe many could use. Then we do what we want to do, might be major, challenging problem solving endeavors. Meanwhile, the other to dos are the mundane tasks we complete while listening to music, snacking, or sitting among a public crowd.

Upon closer inspection, you'll notice that much of your time is spent fixing issues from the third category—tasks that were once normal to-dos but have morphed into necessary fixes based on feedback or feature validation.

Often, developers seek assistance with these routine tasks. For example, fixing a CSS issue in Safari, dealing with a broken wrapper div, or troubleshooting an AJAX call over a slow internet connection. Yet, the core solution you created—like an efficient image compression feature—continues to work flawlessly in the background.

This is where tools like DevBlink, a copilot for developers, come into play. You may not need a god-mode AI that writes all the code for you. Instead, let AI handle the obvious tasks - your normal todos-in parallel.

Imagine you are a proficient frontend developer working in a full-stack role. As you create a login form with email and password fields, your DevBlink copilot can automatically generate the required MongoDB database. Your security agent takes care of input sanitization and handles CORS/CSRF issues, while your Express JS agent writes GET and POST APIs for your login form—all in parallel.

AI isn’t taking away your job; it’s giving you the freedom to focus on what you’re truly skilled at and to expand from there. Consider the analogy of a JCB digger. It might replace six out of ten workers on a single road project in a month, but it also enables the construction of ten new roads in the same timeframe. This creates 40 new opportunities.

What AI tools like DevBlink offer is FREEDOM: freedom to seize more opportunities and to work on what you do best.

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— Sajith Amma