Everyone is talking about how AI is helping junior developers write code they couldn't write before. That's true. But there's a less-told story: what happens when a senior developer picks up these tools. The leverage is completely different — and I didn't fully understand that until I was six months deep into it. Here's how my working relationship with AI actually evolved, from tentative experiments to the workflow I rely on today. Stage 1: Testing the Water with Copilot I sta...