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NoChatGPT · 28 May 2025

AI is for sure making me worse, and lazy

throwaway71271 on Hacker News

thousands of lines of code per day

In the thread “AI: Accelerated Incompetence”

Helped: Using AI as an external library for specific driver tasks.

Got in the way: Daily AI coding caused mental blanking and loss of understanding.

… I always had 2 days per week where I code without any AI, but now I think I have to change the way I code with it. AI is for sure making me worse, and lazy. And I am not talking about the "career" here, I am talking about my ability to think. …