I don't know how to start this off really haha. Though to be fair, everyone is talking about AI ranging from building projects with AI, news about AI, dev.to articles about AI, and so on.
Though the more I see articles talking about AI, the more I felt like it's no longer interesting anymore. There is so much articles that is related to AI (ignore the part where I posted about making a portfolio in relations to AI) to the point where I want something...different.
I remember having discussions with various people on dev.to where back then there use to be articles that were very interesting such as CSS Tips, Resources every developer should know, etc. I can tell it was interesting back then because I visit that time. How? (I just find articles before 2022). There were so much variety of articles to look into and it gives the reader a lot of choices.
Today, most of the time I see articles talking about:
- Topics in MCP
- An app someone use AI to build it
- Tokens
- Models
- Machine Learning
This is based on my experience by simply looking at the front page. Don't get me wrong, MCP is important and so is someone building an app using AI in some sense and talking about their process. The problem is that almost everyone is doing it to the point where it's hard to find an article that stands out from the rest.
It also gets difficult for people, like me, to find articles that are easy to understand because in most cases, articles talking about AI tend to be complex.
Do I mention "AI" in my articles, yes. I talk about AI and I fit into this category. However, I try not to talk about AI most of the time and focus on other aspects. In other words, not making AI the main focus.
For instance, on my last article, I talked about the reasons of creating a portfolio in the age of AI. I mainly talk about how you can structure your portfolio and use AI as a tool. The main highlight is talking about making your portfolio in the age of AI and how it's still relevant in this market.
Before you ask, yes, it gave me fatigue even reading my own article on it. However, this is expected.
AI is unavoidable
If you are lucky enough, you can find an article that talks about anything not related to AI at all. However, there will always be some mention of AI whenever you read an article on dev.to or in any social media platform.
AI has becoming a discussion that seems unavoidable because AI plays a critical role whenever we are developing an app or how some companies using AI. AI is rapidly growing in a rate where it is hard to catch up for not only us developers, but for the general public as well. There are still some discussions about AI art and the legality of it to this day as it becomes much harder to distinguish.
It's everywhere. There is no escape from it and I don't know if it's even possible to escape from this fatigue. My fear is if we all know AI and if we remove AI from the equation from our lives, what do we truly know?
The question is never "how we differentiate topics between AI and non-AI?". we should all be asking: "What will we expect content to look like beyond AI?"
What's your Experience?
I would love to hear from you if you are experiencing this in the comments. If there is a solution to this, feel free to share this as well. Take care :D
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I think we all feel it one way or another. One time I was just browsing the web and I watched this YT video about how a user infamously named "Chick Bongo" trolls AI HR interviewers with nonsense terminology hahaha (I died laughing btw 🤣).
But on the bright side, I know humans will still find a way to fight this fatigue. I mean, Chick Bongo is already doing his part. He is already fighting nonsense with more nonsense. Just imagine how confused the manager is after getting an AI summary from that interview.
Ah yes, I have seen those videos, especially those that tried to gaslight the AI Interviewer lol.
It's not just on the internet though, it's real life too. I have seen restaurants use AI on their menu covers and their AD. It's been really annoying and I feel like I don't trust anyone that claimed they made this WITHOUT AI.
It's something I notice on DEV, though I don't think it's as bad as it was early 2026. I think we became more aware. Besides, public opinion on AI always have been negative since it's been taking all the RAM, a lot of Datacenters, etc.
Thanks Elmar!
I relate to this a lot. 😸
I don’t think using AI should be mandatory just because it’s everywhere, but I do think it can be incredibly useful when it helps accelerate something you already want to do.
The important question for me is
If there’s no answer to that, it becomes very easy to just accept suggestion after suggestion until you’re basically pressing Enter for the machine. And once even that feels annoying, you start asking a much bigger question "what is the human actually here for?"
That’s why I think this is starting to become almost philosophical. Maybe the foundation of the AI era is not learning how to use AI, but figuring out what gives your own life and work meaning.
Then AI becomes something we coexist with in service of that meaning, rather than something that decides the direction for us.
In that sense, maybe living alongside AI is both the privilege of this era and the beginning of how people will live in the next one. 😸
AI is definitely here to stay, and whatever comes beyond it down the road will likely just be the next wave of advanced tech rather than an escape. It is definitely going to keep dominating our feeds for a while. What makes it worse is the AI slop content where everything is either too complex to even read to understand, or doesn't make much sense...
My take is that the fatigue comes from AI being treated as the main character in every single article. Eventually, I am hoping the hype cools down to the point where AI stops being the headline and just becomes a quiet, boring tool in the toolbox, letting us get back to sharing classic web dev stories and practical tips without making a whole production out of it.
I hear you! Very timely post 🥰
I don't feel fatigue from AI. I feel fatigued when I see everyone talking about AI like it's the end of everything. It most certainly is not.
That's why I just wrote this article:
There's No AI Agent, Nor Any Harness.
I'll continue writing this series until the message syncs in 🥰
Yea there is a lot of talks about the "end of the world" because of AI. I don't think it's the end of everything, but I can see where people are coming from.
Will take a look at your article when I have time :)
Thanks Fayaz!
I think there's an important distinction between AI fatigue and content fatigue. The problem may not be that we're discussing AI too much, but that we're encountering the same conversations repeatedly, often without gaining new understanding.
What stood out to me in your essay is the loss of intellectual variety. A healthy developer community needs more than conversations about emerging tools. It needs discussions about debugging failures, accessibility, creative problem-solving, maintainability, and the lessons learned when things don't work as expected.
There's also an interesting paradox here: technology designed to accelerate productivity can contribute to information overload when producing content becomes easier than contributing something genuinely new.
I appreciated nyaomaru's point about preserving human purpose and Akhouri's observation about edge cases. Both suggest that the real value increasingly lies in judgment, curiosity, and lived experience rather than simply generating more output.
Perhaps the question isn't how we escape AI discussions, but how we make room for depth, originality, and intellectual diversity again. AI can be part of that conversation without becoming the entire conversation.
The Question "What will we expect content beyond AI?" just a hint, i think there is a Gramma Error "for" is missing. But i do understand your Articel.
Nothing is written in Stone for ever.
What we are all Observing, is kind like a infinitive AI Generated Feed.
But there still is non AI content, there is mixed Content.
The Problem is NO regulation, the Problem is the Internet itself, it used to be different.
Everybody gets tired of AI, no Human can Compute this Mass Input Feed. There is a Article here on DEV.to asking " when have you read your last Book, ? " .... I can't recall.... and i can't even recall what i watched Yesterday in the Internet, its all just a feed making me tired.
So we as Humans can still chose the Path off Transition, into a Stable Future, in Harmony with AI.
Thks
This precious post still hasn’t received a gem yet.
Yea but not up to me to decide. Though, I did raise that issue because I found it to be highly unusual: dev.to/francistrdev/comment/3gpdp
Gem or not, I thank everyone for reading :)
Yeah, I get that 😅 but honestly, I still think this post deserves a Gem. Anyway, I’m glad you shared it with us! :D
Generative AI writes the predictable average. Master developers are built in the edge cases.
great article! I know the feeling Francis. We will have a new technology that will replace AI as hype in the near future. AI will become like internet of today.
Thanks ben
What I notice in the posts I skip isn't the topic, it's that the title names the tool instead of a problem. "I built X with AI" doesn't tell me whether I have the same problem, while the older CSS-tips era titles were mostly a problem someone hit on a Tuesday. A post about a flaky deploy where the fix happened to involve a model still reads fine to me, because the AI is incidental to it. So maybe the question beyond AI is less which topics and more whether a post starts from a problem the reader recognizes. Would you still skip one if the title led with the bug and the AI only showed up halfway through?
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