I have been feeling more and more tired recently. For a while, I didn't really understand why, given that with AI tools i code, so I thought of it as unusual.
Then I realized that is the actual cause. I don't vibe code, I care how the code looks like, so i read and understand most of it, fix it, review it, etc.
but the amount of code I go through in a day is astonishing, that creates the problem for me.
I haven’t gained much productivity by using any of the LLMs, particularly not the recent ones as their thinking ability is nothing else than overthinking and overcomplicating everything.
What I really use LLMs for is to uncover what I should not do, and this is quite a strong win.
Overall, they are generally very bad at giving me anything useful for the things I build.
One of the problems I encountered in my career was to understand the actual need. You have that entirely.
AI coming in and giving you the ability to do what you and others need and most devs couldn't do without you explainin the need and requirement in detail, is pretty amazing.
Maybe you teach this to some non-dev peers of yours?
I tend to use same structure (in html) and use css for making it brand specific. I built something that makes this easier for me, basically it takes a couple minutes to set something up with a lor of things prestyled.
What I am suggesting, I guess, is use some similar approach for you sue cases. Craft one, or pick one, see if ou can reuse the structure then reconfigure the branding part with some css lib (maybe pico? https://picocss.com)