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I’m Done Using AI. “It made me lazy. It made me stop caring. It made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software.” [brettcodes.com]

I am very sympathetic to the feelings he's expressing. As a lifetime programmer, I know exactly what he's feeling. But for me, coding has always been a means to an end. I want to build a game or make an app or have a blog. As a coder, I could implement these things better/faster than others…

I know the issue is polarizing, but I feel like there's a reasonable middle-ground that exists. Agentic coding can allow developers to work at a _higher_ level. That may not be what folks want who enjoy programming. But it's amazing for those who want to make things.