AI is making me dumb / AI 正在让我变笨

God Damn AI is making me dumb 该死的 AI 正在让我变笨

14 May, 2026 2026 年 5 月 14 日

It’s so god damn tempting to use AI to write. Whether it is articles, code, or documents. I feel like using AI is diminishing my ability to write myself. I didn’t necessarily feel I was bad at writing. I used to be a somewhat talented…well…mediocre software developer, but now, the more I use AI, the more I can feel my own skills getting worse. 使用 AI 来写作真是太诱人了，无论是写文章、代码还是文档。我觉得使用 AI 正在削弱我自己的写作能力。我并不觉得我原本不擅长写作。我曾经是一个还算有天赋……好吧……平庸的软件开发者，但现在，我越是使用 AI，就越能感觉到自己的技能在退化。

I think the problem feeds on my self-doubt, my imposter syndrome, that I can actually produce the work. However, when I use AI to write, I read it back and think: God damn, this just looks like AI. It doesn’t sound or look like me at all. It doesn’t say what I want it to say. 我认为这个问题源于我的自我怀疑和冒名顶替综合症，让我怀疑自己是否真的能产出作品。然而，当我用 AI 写作时，读完后我心想：该死，这看起来就像是 AI 写的。它听起来或看起来一点都不像我，也没有表达出我想说的话。

With coding, I’ve been using AI entirely for a year or two. I’ve been entirely prompting and I haven’t written a single line of code. I have mostly forgotten how to code, which I find very sad and depressing because coding used to be my life. I’m now teaching myself how to code by hand again. 在编程方面，我已经完全依赖 AI 一两年了。我完全靠写提示词（prompting）来工作，一行代码都没写过。我已经基本忘记了如何编程，这让我感到非常悲伤和沮丧，因为编程曾经是我的生活重心。我现在正在重新自学如何手写代码。

I’m pretty certain that the skills of software development aren’t going to entirely disappear with AI. There still need to be people who know how to read and write code. It will be fewer people but certainly there will be people needed. I’m hoping AI might reverse a trend that’s been happening over the past 20-30 years, where there’s been more demand than supply of software developers. 我非常确定，软件开发技能不会随着 AI 的出现而完全消失。仍然需要有人懂得如何阅读和编写代码。虽然人数会减少，但肯定还是需要专业人员的。我希望 AI 能够扭转过去 20 到 30 年间出现的趋势，即软件开发者的需求远大于供给。

As Robert Martin (Uncle Bob) lectures; before computer science was a profession, it was physicists and mathematicians and academics who programmed. Professionals. The professionalism has faded away as demand for software developers skyrocketed. 正如 Robert Martin（Uncle Bob）所讲的那样：在计算机科学成为一个职业之前，编程的人都是物理学家、数学家和学者。他们是专业人士。随着对软件开发者需求的激增，这种专业精神已经逐渐淡化了。

This article isn’t written with AI but I just caught myself about to copy and paste it into Claude to see what it thinks because I’m worried that it doesn’t make sense or it reads funny or there’s something missing. That’s the self-doubt that it’s feeding on and what I need to fight back. 这篇文章并非由 AI 撰写，但我刚才发现自己正准备把它复制粘贴到 Claude 里，看看它有什么看法，因为我担心文章逻辑不通、读起来奇怪或者有所遗漏。这就是 AI 正在利用的自我怀疑，也是我需要去对抗的东西。