The AI Era Developer Paradox: Addicted to Building Tools, Refusing to Use Them
AGI Hunt · wechat · 2026-07-29
The author observes an intriguing phenomenon in the AI era: people are obsessed with consuming tokens late at night to build their own tools, yet rarely use similar products made by others. Even if the software they build is unusable and ignored, the positive feedback from creating it far exceeds simply using a polished product.
This 'creation over usage' tendency means money flows directly to token providers, while developers spend time and money only to leave their creations sitting on local hard drives.
The author jokes that AI has finally made people enjoy the development process rather than the outcome. However, to achieve both process and real results, one might need to join a growing team or find a more pragmatic breakthrough.
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