Force Yourself to Struggle Even If Using AI Is Easier
← Ideas Force Yourself to Struggle Even if Using AI is Easier NinjaHawk September 29, 2026 I’ve been thinking about how I feel about AI tools recently, engineering tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT health, or automated investing through MCPs. I wanted to dive in and talk about how I feel about AI doing most things for me, while making my individual productivity much higher. I’ve been an avid Claude Code user, like most of you, for about a year now.
- ▪← Ideas Force Yourself to Struggle Even if Using AI is Easier NinjaHawk September 29, 2026 I’ve been thinking about how I feel about AI tools recently, engineering tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT health, or automated investing through MCPs.
- ▪I wanted to dive in and talk about how I feel about AI doing most things for me, while making my individual productivity much higher.
- ▪I’ve been an avid Claude Code user, like most of you, for about a year now.
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| Original publisher | Nathanlangley |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.nathanlangley.dev/posts/force-yourself-to-struggle.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:13:28 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-29T17:27:03.704Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-29T17:27:03.704Z |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
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| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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← Ideas Force Yourself to Struggle Even if Using AI is Easier NinjaHawk September 29, 2026 I’ve been thinking about how I feel about AI tools recently, engineering tools like Claude Code, ChatGPT health, or automated investing through MCPs. I wanted to dive in and talk about how I feel about AI doing most things for me, while making my individual productivity much higher. I’ve been an avid Claude Code user, like most of you, for about a year now. I’ve done things in research and engineering that would’ve taken me so much longer if done by hand.
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