8
Thought AI coding tools were overhyped until one saved my butt at 2 AM
I was working on a React project for a client deadline in Austin and my custom form validation kept breaking on edge cases. Spent 3 hours banging my head on it, then fed the error logs into GitHub Copilot on a whim. It suggested a fix using a regex pattern I never would have thought of and the whole thing worked on the first try. Has anyone else had a moment where an AI tool actually saved you from missing a deadline?
2 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In2 Comments
dylan_patel5d agoOG Member
Copilot saved me too last month with a janky middleware bug. That 2 AM desperation move works way more than people admit.
4
west.alice3d ago
Yeah that 2 AM desperation move is real... I had a similar thing with some async state handling that kept throwing weird race conditions. Threw the whole mess into Copilot and it suggested a pattern using useReducer I'd never tried before. Worked perfect on the first test run after hours of staring at it myself. Those late night hail mary passes hit different when they actually work.
1