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 abou...
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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 hate those AI food pics. That's not what your food looks like, shows us what you actually serve. cause the ai food is not appetizing.
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 hope so too Maame! Having AI as the main spotlight takes away the joy for me because I want to see other aspects that is not heavily AI. Thanks for stopping by :)
I am feeling burned out from AI, and honestly, it's causing me to lose steam. Im exploring other avenues along side web development now. Although closely related.
Hey Anna. Speaking of web development, have you gotten into Creative Coding? It's a fun thing to explore in that topic :)
Otherwise, yea too much AI nowadays...
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. 😸
Hey nyaomaru!
It's the best way to describe where we are currently at right now! :)
I also think it shouldn't be a mandatory thing. Though in all fairness, AI developments is still increasing and more hype is coming through (such as Jev recently).
I guess we have to wait and see where this goes I guess. Thanks for stopping by :D
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!
We already have so many things that can end the world. AI, as it is now, doesn't have the capacity to end anything. It's just a massive set of binary tensor data, nothing more.
The problem is, some people are trying to replace human thinking and decision making using that binary tensor data for everything. If anything, that irresponsible use of AI may "end the world", not AI itself.
We MUST put strong regulation against the use of AI in everything. Human accountability must be mandated, by law, if we want to avoid such unfortunate situations.
Irresponsible use of AI models for everything is like using a Math.random function with a low probability value on all nuclear detonators. They'll not explode most of the times, but when they do, bye bye humanity. 🤪
Hopefully, those regulations will come, but based on how fast developments are, it's almost impossible. Today, you can even reverse engineer anything now... Someone literally grabbed adobe and reverse engineer it with Claude to make a replica of it (verbatim almost).
Reverse engineering from binary files existed forever. We call it decompilers.
What Claude probably did was to give it a better function and variable names, along with some structural changes to make the decompiled code more readable. That is order of magnitude easier thing to do than developing an app from a spec (which frontier models could already do).
The decompiled thing is an over hype. The real challenge is maintaining the entire software ecosystem.
Would you spend $5000 for Opus 5.5 for your own copy of photoshop, or just buy a $300/yr subscription?
🥰
Totally. Other than the occasional rant against the clankers, I try to avoid AI in my posts and focus on the things that made the field fun or interesting or on the things I wish someone would explain.
That said I’m going to be on a panel soon with the topic “Hot Takes on AI” so I can only avoid it so much… 🙃
But the hype pressure is so strong, it set off my BS detector a long while back and I admit, I’m struggling with the future of the craft right now
Hey Ben! Absolutely, the hype is strong in this one.
The main thing I am trying to do with future posts is not making AI the spotlight. Instead, thinking about existing things we already know and how that changed. I think it's going to be more useful than having an article decided to only AI and knowing that we saw this before.
Thanks Ben and gl on the topic "Hot Takes on AI" :)
You can read mine, so far I haven't written anything even mentioning AI :)
It's been a while since I wrote and this blog has kinda motivated me to get back on this. Though I'll be honest, non-AI content doesn't get much interaction these days :(
Hey Bhavesh! Thanks for the comment and I will look into your posts when I have time (not sure when but trust lol).
They do. If you check some of my articles. Some articles doesn't mention AI at all and still get enough interaction. It goes the same with AI content as well. It depends on who are your followers and how you are interacting with the community on DEV.
Take the Git article for example below. No mention of AI and just talking about Git lol.
Transitioning from GitHub Desktop to CLI commands
Git Gud!
Hope this boost your motivation on creating non-AI content :)
Oh that's cool! Thanks for giving me a counter example. I formed an opinion that everyone's just posting AI and top posts are always AI, so other content has very little attention.
But this was refreshing, thank you for replying and writing this post! Let's keep working to be better everyday.
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
Right when I was writing an article that is also related to AI 🥲 But it's funny rather than complex. So you might like it?
Y'know, if it's funny I take it haha. I hope this doesn't demotivate you in any way to create content :)
Ok here it is:
I argued with AI until it apologized for calling my course "AI Slop"
Generative AI writes the predictable average. Master developers are built in the edge cases.
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
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
Thanks, very timely post.
Thanks Zavu! Appreciate the read :)
I scrolled dev.to's front page last week and 14 of the top 20 posts had "AI" in the title. That's not a platform, that's a feed. The thing I miss isn't just variety — it's that the old CSS tips and resource roundups were articles someone actually did something for. Most AI posts now are someone summarizing a model's output and calling it a build log. Write the thing you built, not the thing the model built for you.
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?
Machines create the content we ask for almost instantly.
The right approach is to review and validate that output before publishing it.
But the temptation to simply copy, paste, and post without much thought is hard for many to resist in a world where attention has become a form of currency.
There needs to be more thinking. More testing. More validation. And more human intelligence applied to the output of the artificial one.
Otherwise, we risk drowning in a sea of thin gruel and hot dog water.
Honestly, I feel this too!! people are getting tired of AI content because it’s literally everywhere now. But sometimes, even if you’re tired of it, you can’t completely ignore it.
I work at an automation company, and since I’m building automation-related products, talking about AI and automation is part of my job. So, whether I like the hype or not, I have to stay in the conversation.
sometimes it’s not about following the trend; it’s just about doing your job, no choice!
Thanks man. Your article is just as relevant as it is interesting to me, a total rookie when it comes to AI, but I see and understand what you mean by “AI fatigue,” and build996 certainly has a point when he argues that “the title names the tool instead of a problem.” But my reading experience is something completely different. But then again, I don’t have any AI development experience; I’ve always considered myself too old for such advanced technology and have instead been a user who’s played around and experimented with various models online, and found it… mind-blowing, to say the least. Consequently, I delved deeper into the subject, and suddenly I realized that with AI, I can undoubtedly accomplish the mission I’ve failed at for fourteen years. I may be 75, but this discovery has made me as positive and optimistic as a teenager, and I’m reading vast amounts of AI-related texts, primarily RAG, MCP, and AnythingLLM content. I live in the Swedish countryside with Mrs. P. and a GSP (German Shorthaired Pointer). Mrs. P. is 20 years younger than me; she still works and is socially active in civil society and on social media, which I prefer to avoid completely. As a retiree, I’m no longer needed and have a great deal of free time to spend however I please, and that’s exactly what I do, hehe! I stay up all night devouring articles like a veritable Gargantua. Bottom line; I’m counting on you not to be too exhausted to help me out when I get stuck. 😎
Thanks man. Your article is just as relevant as it is interesting to me, a total rookie when it comes to AI, but I see and understand what you mean by “AI fatigue,” and @build996 certainly has a point when he argues that “the title names the tool instead of a problem.” But my reading experience is something completely different. But then again, I don’t have any AI development experience; I’ve always considered myself too old for such advanced technology and have instead been a user who’s played around and experimented with various models online, and found it… mind-blowing, to say the least. Consequently, I delved deeper into the subject, and suddenly I realized that with AI, I can undoubtedly accomplish the mission I’ve failed at for fourteen years. I may be 75, but this discovery has made me as positive and optimistic as a teenager, and I’m reading vast amounts of AI-related texts, primarily RAG, MCP, and AnythingLLM content. I live in the Swedish countryside with Mrs. P. and a GSP (German Shorthaired Pointer). Mrs. P. is 20 years younger than me; she still works and is socially active in civil society and on social media, which I prefer to avoid completely. As a retiree, I’m no longer needed and have a great deal of free time to spend however I please, and that’s exactly what I do, hehe! I stay up all night devouring articles like a veritable Gargantua. Bottom line; I’m counting on you not to be too exhausted to help me out when I get stuck. 😎
I get this. When I scroll the front page, a lot of it is AI, MCP, or models, and the posts that stand out are the ones about something else. I like your point that AI doesn't have to be the main focus of a post. Your portfolio article sounds like a good example, since AI is just a tool in it. I'd love to see more of the older-style posts too, like CSS tips or "tools every developer should know". Do you have any pre-2022 posts you'd recommend?
Your front page list (MCP, an app someone built with AI, tokens, models) is pretty much my feed too, and I write some of those posts myself. Lately I've been reading one non-AI article for every AI one, usually something on CSS or databases, and it helps more than I expected. Which pre-2022 dev.to post would you send someone to first?
I guess it's the best time to take a chance and read articles, develop, test, automate while it is still make sense ;)