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points by archagon 9 hours ago | 0 comments
I've seen devs who I once considered good veer heavily into architecture astronaut and/or "productivity hacking" territory with heavy agentic use, then invariably start posting like a hyperactive Linkedin marketing feed. I'm not sure what they're doing. I think they're building AI tools for other AI people to do AI things. It's certainly not reflected in consumer products in any way.

To be honest, I'm starting to get the feeling that heavy AI use gives you a form of brain damage. See also: https://www.fastcompany.com/91520702/y-combinator-garry-tan-...

[–] senordevnyc 7 hours ago
lol, the list of issues that guy found (ironically using AI) is so minuscule, this honestly sounds like a ringing endorsement for Tan’s approach. Claude Code found all those issues, and fifteen minutes of Opus 5.5 would have fixed them all. Put an automated review step on your PRs and you’re good.

To be honest, if this is what you consider to be a form of “brain damage”, I suspect you might be using reasoning here motivated more by your skepticism (fear? hatred?) of AI than by your colleagues truly going off the deep end.

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