AI eliminates the cognitive strain and mental fatigue of programming
signulll · x · 2026-08-28
The author argues that before AI, programming was cognitively expensive, draining brain cycles for everything from architecture to variable naming. A full day of coding left one exhausted, and even code reviews required deep inference and context awareness. AI has now completely eliminated this strain and manual inference load.
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