I Work as a Freelancer. My AI Coding Tool Was Making Me Look Bad.

I Work as a Freelancer. My AI Coding Tool Was Making Me Look Bad. I still work as a freelancer. Deadlines. Clients. Code reviews. The whole thing. I use GitHub Copilot every day. Not because it's perfect — because it's fast. And as a freelancer, fast matters. But somewhere along the way, fast stopped feeling fast. I wasn’t building anymore. I was babysitting. Every session turned into a back-and-forth. I'd ask Copilot for something. It would go in a direction I didn't want. I'd correct it. It would drift again. I'd correct it again. I wasn’t building anymore. I was babysitting. And the worst part? Things slipped through. Not obvious bugs. Subtle things. A component that already existed — rebuilt slightly differently Styling that didn’t match the rest of the project Structure that worked in isolation — but broke everything else I only noticed when someone else did. Code review. Client feedback. That moment where you think: I would never have written it this way myself. That’s when it st