Writing can help you escape AI delirium
The article discusses the impact of AI on the coding process and the importance of writing in maintaining focus and clarity. It highlights how the ease of building with AI can lead to a lack of motivation and poorly defined projects. The author emphasizes that writing helps organize thoughts and is essential for successful product development in a post-AI world.
- ▪Developers are increasingly relying on AI tools for coding, which can lead to a lack of focus on meaningful projects.
- ▪The ease of using AI can result in many unfinished projects due to lost motivation or unclear goals.
- ▪Writing is emphasized as a crucial skill that helps organize thoughts and maintain creative control when working with AI.
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How writing can help you escape AI delirium23 May 2026Like most developers, I've been using one of Claude Code, Cursor or Codex for over 2 years now, and I don't remember the last time I manually wrote a line of code. Whilst I'm now able to build products in one day that would have previously taken months, this new way of working has created two problems.The first is a lack of focus. Previously, if I wanted to build an MVP for a product, it had to be something that I believed in enough to be willing to spend a few weeks of my life building obsessively. This meant that my ideas had to go through an internal triage process where I would consider whether I really cared about building it, and whether I thought it would actually be useful for other people.
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