How I Use AI to Code 10x Faster (With Real Examples)

I'm not exaggerating when I say AI changed how I write code. Not because it writes everything for me — but because it eliminates the parts of coding that used to slow me down the most: staring at boilerplate, Googling the same errors, writing repetitive tests, and trying to understand unfamiliar concepts from scratch. I use four tools daily: GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor. Each one has a specific role in my workflow. Here's exactly how I use them — with before/after examples. 1. Writing Boilerplate Code — GitHub Copilot Boilerplate is the biggest time thief in any project. Form requests, controllers, service classes, migrations — it's all necessary but mentally draining to write from scratch. GitHub Copilot handles this inside my editor before I even finish typing. Before AI Writing a Laravel form request used to look like this: open a new file, remember the method names, type out every rule manually, look up validation syntax I half-remember… // I'd write this entirely by