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MixedClaude · 17 Sep 2026

I can feel myself becoming supine and dependent on something I know is going to become more expensive, a dependency AI vendors will seek to exploit

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In the thread “Everybody's Lost Their Minds”, replying to this comment

Helped: Writing rigorous plans and using diagrams to learn network programming.

Got in the way: Agent getting stuck, forcing reliance on random prompting and dependency.

… I forget how to solve problems by myself. I can feel myself becoming supine and dependent on something I know is going to become more expensive, a dependency AI vendors will seek to exploit. It has happened quickly. …