A Day In the Life of an AI Software Engineer

Wake up.

Check CI and realize there’s a failure.

Walk the dog.

Go back and forth with Claude for a couple hours.

Have a meeting to discuss our “low trust environment”.

Eat lunch.

Ask to start working on a new project. “maybe”.

Check if my blog article is ranking on HN.

It’s not.

Check the company stock ticker.

Still down.

Go to a standup.

Someone tells me “you sound like AI” trying to explain why I can’t vibe code substantial changes to a deprecated product as fast as they think I should.

Do a LeetCode problem.

Still rusty.

Dog again.

Eat dinner.

Stay up to talk to someone on the other side of the planet about a problem I barely understand, before I’m too tired to think.

Set the alarm late, tomorrow I’ll try to sleep in.

Go to bed.