AI Blindness: How Over-reliance on AI Degrades Technical Intuition
rcymerys · hn · 2026-08-21
The author reflects on how over-reliance on AI tools leads to the degradation of their own technical intuition. The article explores how developers, when AI can rapidly generate code and solutions, gradually lose sensitivity to underlying principles, and the potential long-term impact of this "AI blindness" on personal technical growth.
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