I use AI (Oct 2026)

A research engineer at Salesforce AI Research reflects on how his AI use changed over 12 months, now managing roughly 5–6 coding agents per workday and spending about $3,000/month on tokens. He finds agentic coding fast and useful but still dependent on human taste, reports that LLMs have become his first choice for literature searches while remaining unreliable for novel research, and criticizes AI writing as mediocre and AI image and video generation as a net negative.