Developer Confesses: After One Year of Heavy AI Coding, I've Lost the Ability to Think
fnoef · hn · 2026-08-28
A developer shares their experience relying on Claude Code for a year: transitioning from careful code review to abandoning oversight to match colleagues' '10x' output, eventually running multiple parallel agents. They realized they no longer understand the code logic, cannot fix bugs manually, and have lost basic spelling and punctuation skills due to AI's auto-correction. This triggers a reflection on cognitive atrophy and professional 'hollowing out' caused by over-reliance on AI.
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