The AI heroin is addictive

Three months ago I put out a blog post AI is heroin. It seemed to have resonated with people, the post escaped containment and was shared a few times in various grups. Since then, my feelings about generative intelligence have only gotten more complicated. I implemented a small web application by myself recently. It wasn't fully "classical" though, I had the JetBrains Junie agent in a sidebar and used it to ask questions and request feedback. By the end, as the program grew bigger and design cracks started appearing, I continued doing the work myself, but more often than not I let it suggest code changes I wrote down verbatim, degrading myself to a servant of the AI. I wanted to get it done and wasn't in the correct state of mind to actually think deeply about the problem space. If I didn't have this possibility, I may have not reached a shippable state at all. At work, I write software even less now. For the type of work I do I mostly review code for readability and make sure it…