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If you’re trusting AI more than yourself, you should probably get your brain checked.

Any program is inevitably characterized by rigidity and inflexibility; regardless of how much data AI agents are trained on, this remains unchanged unless they possess self-awareness.


In recent years, AI has become the focal point of discussion. It has been portrayed as a god-like existence. Due to its ability to rapidly generate code, some fools assert—“AI will replace developers.”


Smart people just need to spot where the idiots are.

The notion that “AI will replace developers” commands significant online traffic; consequently, various bloggers engage in discussing it and even assert that AI will replace developers.

But is that really how it is?


Firstly, it must be acknowledged that, as developers, we are losing our creative authority.

I pursue programming because I intend to create functions that are comprehensible only to me, remaining private and solely under my control.

However, with the emergence of AI, I entrusted this private code, solely under my control, to artificial intelligence for evaluation.

I lost my creative authority, my confidence diminished, and I ceased to trust myself, placing my trust in AI instead.

That was exactly me last year.

However, I am no longer in that state this year, as I have pursued studies in cybersecurity.

Because this industry is so particular, I just can’t depend on AI, no matter how much I want to.

Whenever I ask it about cybersecurity, it always says, “Sorry, I can’t answer that question.”

This made me mad; people hate it when their tools don’t obey them.

I’ve stopped leaning on AI. I used to talk to it hundreds of times a day, and now I barely have a few dozen chats.

I have begun to reevaluate the creative authority that I lost in the past year.

Over the last year, I also lost the uniquely human ability to think for myself and to critique.

At present, how many developers rely on AI in the same way I formerly did?


I initially intended to write, “Who would be so foolish as to let AI audit their code?” Are you prepared to have your code filled with bugs that you cannot repair? AI will alter your code disastrously, causing it to lose your original creative intent.

Upon careful consideration, I recognized that I had once been that foolish person. I allowed AI to review my code, which is how I came to understand how disastrous such a process could become.


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