I was wrong about AI Coding

A senior software engineer with nearly two decades of experience shares how he changed his mind about AI coding tools after years of skepticism. Influenced by colleagues and blog posts, he tried Claude Code for the first time to write a table-driven Go unit test for a Kubernetes controller. The tool produced idiomatic Go code in minutes instead of hours, though it required one correction for a hallucinated function. He concludes that AI coding is genuinely useful for experienced engineers who understand the code, particularly for tests and small decoupled logic, while remaining cautious about complex distributed systems work.