The AI Coding Workflow That Finally Clicked I tried using AI for coding for six months. Mostly failed. Not because the tools were bad. Because I was using them wrong. I'd ask ChatGPT to "write me a function" and get code that looked right but broke in weird ways. I'd paste errors into Claude and get explanations that didn't actually fix anything. I'd generate entire components that I had to rewrite anyway. Then I changed one thing about how I used AI, and suddenly it actually worked. The shift: Stop asking AI to write code. Start using it to think through problems. What I Was Doing Wrong Before: "Write me a React component that fetches user data and displays it in a table with sorting." What I got: 200 lines of code that: Used old syntax Had no error handling Didn't match my existing patterns Broke when I tried to integrate it What I did next: Spent 30 minutes fixing it. Could've written it from scratch in 20. That's not productivity. That's just extra steps.…