article pub. Aug 10, 2025
Three months into AI-assisted development, the author finds the fatigue has shifted from wrestling with implementation details to constant architecture-level decision-making, since the AI is ready to implement whatever is chosen the moment it's chosen. Also flags a code-review blind spot: you can't interrogate an AI's reasoning after the fact the way you can ask a human collaborator why they made a choice.
Referenced in George Hotz's "I love LLMs, I hate hype" as a caution about AI-assisted coding increasing cognitive fatigue.