# AI-assisted Coding is Not Doing My Dishes and Laundry

DevFeed: [AI-assisted Coding is Not Doing My Dishes and Laundry](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ai-assisted-coding-is-not-doing-my-dishes-and-laundry-33262.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://8thlight.com/insights/ai-assisted-coding-is-not-doing-my-dishes-and-laundry>)

Author: Justyna Jurkowska

Published: 2025-09-10T18:45:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [8th Light Insights](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/8th-light-insights.md>)

Topics: [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tooling.md>), [ChatGPT](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chatgpt.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cursor.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-and-emerging-tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-and-emerging-tech.md>), [ai-assisted-coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [chatgpt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chatgpt.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [llm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm.md>), [tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tooling.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article examines the author's experience with AI-assisted coding and argues that AI has fallen short at handling mundane software-development tasks. It focuses on project setup and manual data handling, including problems encountered when using Cursor and ChatGPT to generate project setups.

## Source excerpt

"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." Joanna Maciejewska I'm sure you've seen this quote from Joanna Maciejewska all over social media; I'd bet some money that there are shops already selling t-shirts and mugs with it. Despite seeing it dozens of times, I never thought about it in the context of my day-to-day as a programmer! I, like the quote's author, was more focused on AI hijacking the "classical" creative work such as painting and writing, instead of helping us humans with the most boring tasks. But it's been almost a year since I've started learning more about AI and LLM, applying them to projects, and using assisted coding. And I've gained a new perspective on this quote, this time within the tech world. And it isn't all sunshine and rainbows. I had hoped AI would take over my tech "dishes and laundry" -- the most frustrating and mundane tasks -- freeing me up to focus on the more exciting parts of my job. But ironically, it has consistently fallen short in exactly those areas. In this post, I'll reflect on how AI struggles with two chores: the frustrating complexity of project setup and the dull grind of manual data handling. The Struggle of Setup Someone once asked me, "If there was one thing in software you could magically skip, what would it be?" My answer was immediate: "setup." It's rarely fun, always takes longer than expected, and involves wrangling together tooling that shifts from project to project. We're constantly tempted to try out the new, shiny thing, only to discover a new set of issues when trying to make everything run on multiple environments or deploy. Thankfully, the software community built great instruments to ease this pain, such as Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, Docker, create-react-app, or even version checker for React Native. These tools are lifesavers. I'd probably have gone mad without them. Sincere thanks to their contributors