It's a change in mindset. AI is like having your own junior developer. If you've never had direct reports before where you have to give them detailed instruction and validate their code then you're right, it might end up more exhausting than just doing the work yourself.
- Kicked off learning about Big O Notation through this. The concepts completely changed the way I looked at code, especially being mostly self taught beforehand.
Numerical Analysis - Sauer
- Learned about Newton's Method from this book which blew my mind at the time and got me hooked.