About a year ago, I set out to create a demo for my teams. The goal? Teach front-end best practices, show off what Storybook can do, and introduce a pattern I love—restrictive–flexible components. You know, the kind that lock in good defaults but still let you override them when needed. Clean. Scalable. Practical.

So I hit record. Built a component from scratch. MUI under the hood. Variants and all.

And then... Copilot showed up.

Suddenly, what was supposed to be a focused walkthrough turned into a surprise battle of wills between my engineering instincts and AI-generated optimism.

Copilot offered suggestions at every turn—some helpful, some hilariously off, some oddly insightful.

I overrode more than half. But here’s the thing: I still worked faster. I still had more fun.

What started as a demo for my teams turned into a real-time case study in working with AI, not against it.

🚀 And the truth is, this shift isn’t going away.

According to Stack Overflow’s 2023 Developer Survey,

🧠 70% of developers are already using or planning to use AI tools in their workflows. (source)

GitHub reports that developers using Copilot code up to 55% faster and spend less time on boilerplate or repetitive tasks. (source)

This isn’t just an emerging trend—it’s already a transformation.

AI isn’t coming for the keyboard. It’s sitting next to us now—like a very chatty pair programmer.

And it's not going back in the box.

If you’re curious how it looked in action, 🎬 watch the demo and see how it all came together. Enjoy!

⚠️ Enjoy it while it lasts—while experts like myself are still here to outperform AI in real time. Believe me, we’re a vanishing breed.