yo, this article hits a nerve. AI’s great for boilerplate, tests, and the annoying cleanup stuff, but if I let it near architecture or debugging for too long, I can feel my own attention get mushy.
Has AI actually made you better, or just faster? I’m curious what people refuse to offload, because my list keeps getting shorter and that’s probably not a great sign.
source: The "100x Developer" Paradox: Is AI "Brain Fry" Killing the Craft?
Using AI for debugging is where my brain turns into spectator mode the fastest, because it starts feeling like watching someone else play your save file. In QA, I’ve caught myself pasting logs in, getting a plausible explanation back, and then realizing I didn’t actually form a hypothesis—so when the same bug pops up a week later, I’m back at level 1. What I refuse to offload (when I’m being disciplined) is writing the first “why I think this is happening” note before I ask it anything. Even two sentences forces me to keep the mental model, and then I use AI more like a rubber duck + grep-on-steroids. I’m not sure it’s made me “better” overall, but it has made me faster at the parts I already understand. The scary part is it can make you feel fast even when you don’t understand it.
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