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This is a real and sharp self-reflection from a developer in 2026, he talks about how over-reliance on AI has eroded his writing and coding skills, brought him self-doubt and imposter syndrome, and his thinking about the future of the developer profession. After reading this I couldn't help but think: when we hand over the work that originally required our own brain to AI, what exactly are we losing? Maybe convenience is not all we get, and the gradual degradation of core competence is the hidden price we easily ignore.
这是2026年一位开发者真实又尖锐的自我反思，他聊到了过度依赖AI是如何侵蚀自己的写作和编码能力，给他带来自我怀疑和冒名顶替综合征，以及他对开发者职业未来的思考。看完之后我忍不住感慨：当我们把原本需要自己动脑的工作交给AI的时候，我们到底在失去什么？或许便利不是我们得到的全部，核心能力的逐步退化，是我们很容易忽略的隐性代价。
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.
用AI来写东西真的太容易上头了，不管是写文章、写代码还是做文档都是如此。我现在明显感觉到，用AI用多了，我自己独立写作的能力越来越差。
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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. 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.
我以前并不觉得自己写作能力差，之前我好歹也算个有点天赋的……好吧，算个中等水平的开发者。但现在AI用得越多，我越能感觉到自己的技能在退化。我觉得这个问题还在放大我本来就有的自我怀疑和冒名顶替综合征，我本来是可以自己产出内容的，但用AI写完之后回头一读，我就会想：这破东西一看就是AI写的，半点儿都不像我的风格，也根本没表达出我真正想说的东西。
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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.
至于编码这事儿，我已经完完全全靠AI写了一两年了，全程都是写提示词，自己一行代码都没敲过。我现在基本上已经忘了怎么写代码了，这事儿我一想起来就特别难过和沮丧，毕竟编码曾经是我生活的全部。我现在已经开始重新学手写代码了。
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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. 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.
我很确定软件开发技能不会因为AI的出现就彻底消失，总归还是需要有人懂怎么读代码、写代码的，虽然需要的人数会变少，但肯定还是有需求的。我甚至还希望AI能扭转过去二三十年的行业趋势：之前开发者一直是供不应求的状态，就像罗伯特·马丁（Bob大叔）说的那样，在计算机科学成为一个正式职业之前，写代码的都是物理学家、数学家和学者，都是实打实的专业人士。后来开发者需求暴涨，这个行业的专业性反而慢慢没了。
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.
这篇文章我没有用AI写，但我刚才差点下意识就把它复制粘贴到Claude里，想看看AI觉得写得怎么样，担心它逻辑不通、读起来奇怪，或者缺了什么内容。你看，这就是AI在喂养的自我怀疑，也是我必须要反抗的东西。
