AI As Externalized Context

Like most devs, I keep a mental backlog of useful-to-me project ideas. In my younger (pre-kids) days, I&rsquo;d easily spend 20 or 30 hours a week playing around with personal projects, interesting programming languages, or new frameworks. As I grew and felt more constraints on my personal time, that changed; it became a few hours here-and-there, spread sparsely. Personal dev projects became…