Not enough sleep, too much AI in my head

I’ve been using AI tools for coding for a while now. GitHub Copilot Pro, the occasional ChatGPT session — I’ve been paying for this stuff and watching it closely. But I recently had what I can only describe as my actual AI realization moment — and I’m still not quite sure how to process it.

Two things happened in the last couple of weeks.

The first was GitHub Copilot’s cloud agent sessions. I set up a workflow where I could automatically create GitHub issues and have an agent pick them up and work on them in the cloud. I could track progress on my phone, and when it was done, a PR was waiting — automatically reviewed. I just had to think through it and merge. That alone was already a “wait, what is happening” moment.

Then I started trying Claude Code.

It didn’t change everything on top of that — but it changed how I work with AI. With GitHub Copilot, I always had VS Code open, manually reviewing diffs and accepting changes one by one. With Claude Code, I don’t necessarily have an editor open at all. I let it run in the background, a bit detached from watching every line of code myself. That shift — from co-pilot to just… letting it go — felt significant. I’m using it mainly for Dartobert, my darts tracking app. On day two I upgraded straight from the €20 plan to the €100 plan. At that point I had convinced myself: this is worth it.

The part I keep coming back to though: why now? I’ve been hearing “AI will change everything” for years. I’ve used these tools for months. So what’s different?

I think it’s the models. Since I started using Sonnet and Opus — through GitHub Copilot first, now through Claude Code — something genuinely shifted. The output quality, the ability to hold context, the way it handles real architectural decisions. It’s crossed some threshold where I stopped questioning the results and just started using them.

Here’s the honest part: I’m sleeping less than I should. I’m up late every night because I can’t stop playing around with what’s now possible. There’s this irrational feeling that all 100 projects I’ve had on my list for 20 years can now be finished — simultaneously, this week. I know that’s absurd. But Dartobert is actually moving forward, my website is getting updates, and I’ve got three other things running in parallel that I haven’t touched in years.

It’s a strange mix of total excitement and total overwhelm. I don’t know which tool to use for what, whether I should even write code myself anymore, or what “writing code” even means now. I genuinely don’t have answers yet.

What I do know is that something shifted. And I’m pretty sure I’m not going back.