Engineer on feeling guilty for solving problems without AI, plans no-AI Snake
dmytro_omelian · reddit · 2026-09-28
Engineer Dmytro Omelian describes an unexpected emotion: guilt when spending an hour thinking through a coding problem, feeling he "could have asked AI and finished in 30 minutes" — pressure entirely self-imposed.
- AI delivers answers fast, but understanding them still takes time; his accumulated AI chats have become another reading backlog.
- He feels less confident solving things independently, though he has no evidence his skills actually declined — he just reaches for help faster now.
- He plans a small experiment: building Snake without AI, to practice staying with hard problems.
He asks how other developers decide what to delegate and what to keep practicing themselves.
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