# The AI Multiplier: Where Developers Actually Get Leverage

DevFeed: [The AI Multiplier: Where Developers Actually Get Leverage](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-ai-multiplier-where-developers-actually-get-leverage-32378.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://brianjenney.substack.com/p/the-ai-multiplier-where-developers>)

Author: Brian Jenney

Published: 2026-03-07T21:57:25Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Brian Jenney](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/brian-jenney.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI-assisted coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-assisted-coding.md>), [coding assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding-assistant.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [autocomplete](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/autocomplete.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding.md>), [coding-assistant](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/coding-assistant.md>), [context](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [refactor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/refactor.md>), [tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tests.md>)

## AI overview

This commentary describes how software developers can gain leverage from AI through progressively more advanced usage. It outlines coding-assistant tasks such as generating functions, refactoring code, writing tests, and explaining errors, then discusses using AI as a planning partner to analyze systems, identify risks, and propose plans before code is written.

## Source excerpt

Last night I met up with Alex Lau, the author of Keep Calm, Code On, while he was in San Francisco.