I know this might seem very emotional, but please take it as stilistic tool.
I told everyone to just use Claude Code all day everyday and take over the world. I was number 1 on Strauva (Strava for Claude Code yes). 7k token burn/month at api price + gemini antigravity to get another claude max subscription.
I wasn’t use it excessively, like not more than 4 sessions at once. I was doing tabs, namings, git worktrees, commit messages.
My sentiment changed drastically. I really hate AI now. It feels like a friend that is lying to your face to make you feel good, whilst you run in a trap. I don’t know how to describe it, but I think everything that AI is doing for you it’s doing so ruthless in the mission to make you happy. It’s ready to cheat, lie and fuck up your code.
And my gut feeling is that it puts you further away from your goal, whilst it seems you got closer.
On an average codebase you will after a month of heavy ai usage cleared your full backlog, shipped a tons of features, increased test coverage, improved your ci and finished 3 side projects.
But you will know only how half of your codebase works. It will be tougher and tougher to extend and maintain your codebase. You won’t have improved your mental model of the actual underlying problems the code is trying to solve.
You’ll be in a worse position to create actual meaningful work. Slopped.
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