AI makes answers faster but understanding still takes time, engineer writes
dmytro_omelian · reddit · 2026-09-28
Engineer Dmytro Omelian writes about AI-era learning anxiety: he feels guilty spending an hour thinking through a problem, even though nobody pressures him — the urge to "ask AI and finish in 30 minutes" is self-imposed.
- Getting an answer and understanding it take different amounts of time; his pile of unread AI chats has become another backlog.
- He admits reaching for help too quickly, without hard evidence his skills declined or that AI is to blame for every forgotten detail.
- He plans to build Snake without AI to practice staying with stuck points, and asks what delegation habits people actually keep.
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