This post obviously talks about Artificial Intelligence, the "great tool" of every new developer.

I am myself a ChatGPT-era developer, as I started developing a discord bot, my first project, with ChatGPT in 2022-2023. However, it was still some light work — it was the beginning of something way worse.

Nowadays, I'm almost starting to compare it to an addiction. A new project? Gemini, how could I [...]? A vague new idea? ChatGPT, expand this idea to something more concrete! A new app? Claude, create the file structure for me and create the one thousand files required to built it.

Almost three months ago, I built a webserver in assembly, something where I actually wasn't able to spam AI, since debugging what it generated was harder than writing it myself.

During that time, I remembered why I at first loved developing, and it wasn't only because I was able to create something useful or that I liked. It was because each project had its own struggles, successes, and lessons to learn. I love writing code, and see it execute its complex actions on first try. And if it didn't, I did some good old internet research, looking at a human's response, even 15 years old.

AI removes this happiness, you just ask something, it does a lot of math and produces a confident output. Then you Ctrl-C Ctrl-V, and done — there's your brand new revolutionary startup.

It's weird that the machine you once gave instructions to — and at its core responded with logical "yes" or "no" — now asks you to tell "yes" or "no" before doing what you originally did, just like it stole your common sense, critical thinking, and creativity.

And yet, I still asked claude to correct this post...