By a software engineer who finally stopped doing everything the hard way — Must Read
A few months ago, I hit a wall.
One of those What am I even doing? days.
Inbox overflowing. Too many meetings. Writing code while prepping for the next stand-up. I was busy — but not really getting anything done.
Somewhere between rewriting docs and answering another Slack thread about something already in Jira, I thought:
Not quit. Just let AI handle the boring, repetitive stuff.What if I just… replaced myself?
So I did. One tool at a time.
And guess what?
I got my time back. I felt creative again.
Sometimes, I even had time to be bored — in the best way.
Here are the 10 AI tools that helped me do it, and how they can help you too.
1. Notion AI

What it replaced: Writing docs, cleaning up notes…