Confessions of an AI vampire 🧛

I had a realization today: it’s 2026, and I’ve barely written any code this year. Not really. I’ll change a configuration value here and there — except half the time I don’t even do that myself, I just prompt for it. I’ve become reliant enough on AI that I’m too lazy to make the small edits by hand.

I can feel my brain rotting a little, and I’m honestly not sure how I feel about that.

But here’s the strange part: the pace I can move at now is something I can’t imagine giving up. I can’t picture slowing down, or going back to a way of working without AI in the loop. It’s a very, very strange time to be building things.

Coding has been commoditized — that much is clear. What I’m realizing, though, is that my experience hasn’t been. Knowing what to build, how systems fit together, where the sharp edges are — that’s the part that makes the tools actually powerful in my hands. The judgement is doing more work than the typing ever did.

So I’ve turned into one of these so-called AI vampires. I can’t stop, and I love it, because I’m shipping more than I ever have. I’m taking on things I simply couldn’t have attempted before, because all the years of hard-won knowledge are finally being leveraged instead of bottlenecked by how fast I can type.

I do miss writing my own code. I might go back and do more of it by hand, just to keep the muscle. But I’d be lying if I said I wanted the pace to stop.