Ryan Carniato, creator of SolidJS, shares his personal experience adopting AI coding tools after months of skepticism. He discusses the psychological pull of AI-assisted development, comparing it to an addictive dopamine loop, and how it blurs the line between orchestrating and executing work. He describes his workflow using Cursor for implementation and GitHub Copilot for ideation, and how AI helped him accelerate SolidJS 2.0 development significantly. He also shares a candid story of an AI (Claude Opus) producing two identical implementations with renamed variables, and reflects on how AI hallucinations can still be useful as a sounding board. The stream includes a deep technical discussion on solving hydration/streaming conflicts in Solid 2.0 using a snapshot-based approach.
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