So it’s been few months I’m a pure vibe coder (both Claude and ChatGPT) and my life is basically just prompting AI nonstop both for work and my hobbies, I’m just breathing AI for every part of my productivity and I’m starting to worry about what’s the effects on my brain I feel like I have now wired a reflex that for each information I need to know about -> Ask AI, I don’t use my brain to remember things anymore, I feel like I can’t really pause and fetch things back from my memory, I just ask AI about that thing in the project, I’m self-manufacturing dementia if AI goes away “Search and make me a markdown doc to summarize this” every single fucking time, even for things I did do myself earlier and that I could probably remember This is something I realized only recently, because most of the things I heard about AI effect on the brain is that it harms critical thinking, but I believe my critical thinking is still good, I still have my opinions and analysis I do feel them, this post is written by hand btw. And sometimes I try to code on small-scoped things, and I can still do that, so my logic is there. But for managing significant stuff I’m just being fueled by intuition and immediate markdown summaries and I can’t even remember a thing when I’m done, I feel like I’m doing nothing despite managing between 2 and 5 Claude sessions at once and working overtime, I don’t even understand how that’s possible despite how much I’m outputting, what kind of paradox is that I also really suck at mental calculus more than ever because that works with immediate memory and I can’t keep track on numbers in my head I lost patience on anything, there are stuff I would want to do myself but I’m addicted to the holy SPEED™ gains of everything, there are personal projects I care about that that I enjoyed working on for the sake of it as hobbies where it’s just fun to dev but I just leaped straight into full lazy vibecoding (I just refine the design because it’s still something AI can’t get exactly right) I also have big FOMO out of everything, every model that’s out I vibecode a bunch of random useless shit just so see how far I can push it to better understand what’s going on in the world, or else I feel like I’m missing out. I’m thinking that deep down despite appearing like an AI bro I’m quite scared of where the future is going and just try to understand wtf is going on submitted by /u/Acclynn
Originally posted by u/Acclynn on r/ClaudeCode