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I didn't use generative AI much until a couple months ago. My last employer had a copilot license that I dabbled in in 2024, and wasn't impressed with, and then I spent the latter half of 2025 and early 2026 budget traveling/hiking a lot. I started at a new company in May, and I've been astonished at how lazy I can be at prompting and still get impressive results with 2026 Claude Code.

I can paste entire failure logs with the word "why" lowercase, no question mark, and get into a productive chat session where it significantly speeds up the bug trace. I will paste the text from a groomed ticket with no editing or additional instructions into the chat and then give it a bit of feedback on the plan for a couple iterations.

I feel so vindicated in never spending time learning prompting as a specific skill, it really just took a couple more years and the models are really easy to interact with with simple natural language.