Artificial Intelligence has become a powerful tool for enhancing productivity, particularly in coding and content creation. However, using AI effectively requires understanding its strengths and limitations. This guide outlines practical ways to integrate AI into your daily work while avoiding common pitfalls.
✅ Use AI for code generation, sometimes you need to write a long boilerplate to use some of the technologies or patterns, and in these cases AI will fit you well. Another way to use it is to write utility functions.
Generate Redux boilerplate, with local storage sync, use TypeScript
Generate SASS 7-1 Architecture boilerplate, fill it with basic UI-Kit
Generate Bash script which recursively scan specified folder and output file tree with file size in JSON
❌ Do not abuse this method, write most part of code by yourself, use code generations as helper for some code blocks.
✅ Use AI for code transformation, have awesome CSS with HEX colors and want to have it with RGB or HSL? Found a useful code snippet in JavaScript and want to have it in TypeScript? Easy.
Remake this code in TypeScript and ES6 ...
Remake this code in CSS and replace HEX to HSL colors ...
SCSS Input
$primary-background: #FFF;
$primary-color: #000;
body {
background: $primary-background;
color: $primary-color;
}CSS Output
:root {
--primary-background: hsl(0, 0%, 100%);
--primary-color: hsl(0, 0%, 0%);
}
body {
background: var(--primary-background);
color: var(--primary-color);
}It's also working in opposite side! Another way to use code transformation is for typification your code, ask AI to create types or interfaces. One more thing is try to generate code from different language (only if the functional is the same!), as example if you're working with file system in Node.js you can ask AI to generate same code as yours but in Python or PHP, just check and test everything carefully.
❌ Be realistic and do not ask AI to make something what is not existing one of your target languages, keep in mind platform and language specific differences.
✅ Use AI to generate Regular Expressions, as example for password or URL (or path) validation with custom rules. Don't forget to specify the language for which you need a regular expression.
Create a JavaScript password RegExp which must include (1 capital letter OR 1 special character), AND must include at least 1 number, AND not contain whitespaces. The password should be 8-16 characters long.
const regex = /^(?=(.*[A-Z]|.*[\W_]))(?=.*\d)(?!.*\s).{8,16}$/;
console.log(regex.test("Test1234!")); // true
console.log(regex.test("12345678")); // false (no uppercase or special character)
console.log(regex.test("NoNumber!")); // false (no number)
console.log(regex.test("Short1!")); // false (too short)❌ Test every regular expression with many data as possible (tell AI to generate mock data for test), some cases can work wrong, so do not miss them. Received results you can easily test in services like https://regex101.com/
✅ Use AI to generate text for meta tags (this is my favourite thing!), just explain the details about text what you want to have and add some rules for SEO.
There is a page with my Japan Winter trip photos gallery, generate SEO friendly text for it. Title should be 20-60 characters long, description should be 150-160 characters long, and generate 2-5 keywords. Everything should be related to each other.
Title:
Japan Winter Trip Photo Gallery | Snowy Adventures
Description:
Explore stunning photos from my Japan winter trip. Experience serene snowy landscapes, vibrant festivals, and cultural wonders captured in breathtaking moments.
Keywords:
Japan winter trip
snowy landscapes
Japanese culture
winter photography
travel gallery
...and generate separate text for OpenGraph and Twitter
❌ Avoid auto-generating full blog posts, use it as helper and focus on high quality and user value.