Thinking deeply about architecture and trying more high-level prototypes out -> then if one really sticks digging in a bit more and injecting my own code is what I've started to do.

The downside is I don't really like starting from "scratch" without these tools anymore. They save so much time for drudge work / migrating changes across large portions of code - I miss the manual way but if I'm being honest not really.

I code as much as I can without ai tools in order to stay fresh for interviews though. It's really eye opening to see how lost non-technical people without a software background get even with the latest cursor tools.

In the future, architectural understanding and knowing how to scale a project will pay top dollar.