I'm Done Using AI
I'm done using AI 10 Aug, 2026 I've been programming for 20 years. It started as a hobby as a teen, making fansites and little video games. And it's something I've largely enjoyed doing.
- ▪I'm done using AI 10 Aug, 2026 I've been programming for 20 years.
- ▪It started as a hobby as a teen, making fansites and little video games.
- ▪And it's something I've largely enjoyed doing.
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| Original publisher | Brett Codes |
| Canonical URL | https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:42:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-12T05:50:43.455Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-12T05:50:43.455Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| 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. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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I'm done using AI 10 Aug, 2026 I've been programming for 20 years. It started as a hobby as a teen, making fansites and little video games. Then it turned into a career. And it's something I've largely enjoyed doing. I like learning, I like problem solving, and I like making things, which is a lot of what programming is. Over the past 18 months, my career, my hobby, and my craft have been drastically changed by the introduction of LLM-powered coding harnesses (e.g., Claude Code) and what's often referred to as "agentic programming." Because of its negative impacts on the environment, society, and my mental health, I've decided to stop using it. ▶ Watch a ramble video version of this post.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Brett Codes.
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