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I used AI more last year than in any year of my career, and got quietly worse at my job. AI skill atrophy is quiet. You only notice when something breaks. The pendulum, and the three habits that keep it swinging.
The Pendulum: How to Use AI Without Losing Your EdgeI approved my own PR and felt nothing. Over-delegating to AI didn’t just make my work fragile — it made it boring. The fix wasn’t using less AI. It was flipping who leads.
Don’t Automate the FunIn 1982 skaters named a trick “the impossible” because the physics said it couldn’t exist. Decades later a 1000fps camera revealed why it can — and what that has to do with your job as a developer.
AI Didn’t Take Your Job – It Revealed ItUsing AI as a researcher, not a brain — a workflow from problem to ship, built around one rule: I do the thinking, AI does the fetching.
I Delegated My Thinking to AI. Now I’m Taking It Back.A systems breakdown of what’s actually inside a coding agent: the agent loop, tool design, memory management, policy layer, and the survival engineering required to make it work on local models via Ollama.
Anatomy of a Coding Agent: What I Learned Building My OwnI caught myself, again, telling Claude that we don’t do it that way in this codebase. Not the first time that week. Not the first time that day. Different repo,…
How many times have you told the agent the same thing this weekToday, on the verge of a breakdown, I realized I’ve been in a very toxic relationship for a while now. One that gaslights me. One that nudges me toward decisions…
I’m in a Toxic RelationshipMeta is installing tracking software on its employees’ work computers. Not for security. Not for compliance. For training data. Mouse movements. Keystrokes. Screenshots. All fed into AI models so agents…
We’re Not Being Replaced by AI. We’re Being Asked to Train It.AI fluency is becoming the most important skill in software development — but the models and tools needed to build it cost real money. The access gap is creating a two-tier developer class.
The Most Important Skill in Tech Is Too Expensive to LearnThat anxiety you feel scrolling AI threads at 11 PM? It’s not going away. Even engineers building AI daily don’t feel AI literate. Here’s why — and what to do about it.
No Developer Feels AI Literate Right Now — Not Even the Ones Building It
