Earlier: you struggled, then understood. Now: you solve faster… but understand less. Problem-solving hasn’t disappeared. It has just changed form. Earlier, you had no choice but to sit with the problem. You struggled, made mistakes, and eventually figured it out. Now, the answer is one prompt away. It feels efficient. And it is. But there’s a catch. When something slightly different shows up, or the same code breaks, you’re stuck again. Not because the problem is harder, but because the process was skipped. AI didn’t remove the need to think. It just made it easier to avoid thinking. And that shows up later during debugging, not solving. #programming #developers #codinglife #debugging #AItools #softwareengineering #devlife
Be honest—are you solving problems faster, or just skipping the struggle?
Nothing wrong with using AI. But if you remove the struggle completely, you also remove the learning.