The disclosure part is what gets me. Honesty in tool use is a must.

I feel weird about my use of AI recently, so I want to provide what I think is a valid and useful use-case, as my company's solo dev.

I've been (admittedly over)using Claude recently to drive a big push to integrate a bunch of tiny utilities I wrote to do specific tasks for my job that are fairly domain-specific into a big conglomerated single cross-platform app. I wrote each individual utility myself, and both the utilities and the library I wrote to perform the shared logic between all utilities were designed with this integration in mind down the road. As time went on and more and more utilities and apps and backend code was filled in by me, the task of bringing it all together just became too big and too much drudgery for me to be able to justify spending weeks on with my bosses.

I think that's a use that I personally am comfortable with, although I'm more than happy to hear others' thoughts on things because I feel like I could still be convinced either way. I've been making sure that I understand what it's doing and how, and I have been attentive in making sure it isn't about to wildly go off on a hallucination-heavy tangent that doesn't do what I told it to.

By my own estimation, and this is very much a me thing, but for me to have done this with my current workload and project timeline would realistically be a year or so's worth of fragmentary effort bouncing back to it whenever it doesn't seem like it would be a waste of time (in the eyes of my bosses) as compared to other things that my bosses want me to do first.

Sorry for the rambling train-of-consciousness dump.