There's a satisfaction that comes with creating that is so hard to explain, Ofcourse it's different for everyone; Is it the excitement that comes w...
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I feel this
Totally relate to that uneasy feeling when AI shortcuts zap the spark from making something.
Have you found any specific prompts or workflows that actually help boost your creativity instead of replacing it?
What I usually do is think through my idea first, digest it and make sure I know the actual end goal from the beginning so that any AI tool I decide to go with doesn't change my focus. Then I proceed to brainstorm with it, upload some materials, then I can come up with a rough draft.
For prompts; I don't usually have one persay; But one that has really worked for me is role and context prompting. I.e I prompt the AI to
act as a top editor from {inserts company}and the context comes in form of sharing white papers, articles, links, pdfs etc.Hope this helps!
If I may jump in here... I rarely use AI because it can't normally figure out how to do what I need it to do, but when I do, I use it to debug/figure out silly syntax errors/borrow checker issues/etc. Anything that is, in theory, incredibly simple, but is just incredibly hard to spot. It's a nice way to avoid letting it do everything, but also allowing myself to focus on the meat of whatever I'm working on (in other words boost my creativity, as you said).
I totally agree with you on this... The goal is to make it your co-pilot not the pilot itself
Maybe AI steals the joy of creating, but it definitely gives a lot of joy when fixing the bugs it creates. Yesterday, I tried to save time by asking Claude to modify my code to format an article. After 37 minutes of back and forth, I ended up restoring the original version from GitHub. Then, in just 5 minutes, I did all the work manually — and that was a real joy!
Uhmmm, I can relate 🙌
Definitely feeling this and struggling with grief and burnout. I've been coding for 30 years now. At first I was super excited and a big proponent of AI. I probably still am. But ideas become ugly prototypes in minutes now. I'm not sure if I'm failing faster or just going through the motions. And I find I've become more lazy. The code doesn't feel like mine, and I've become so used to not coding that doing so feels like a chore.
There is a joy in seeing a task you've planned and struggled with come to life. There is little joy seeing the AI do it. The end results are probably similar. But it's like doing a puzzle. Few people do it for the end results, they do it for the journey. If I really wanted to see Cats Playing In a Kitchen, I'd just buy a poster, or just hang up the puzzle box top.
I've got to get back to coding by hand. Maybe with an AI sidekick, given strict specifications. I need to know how every piece works. I need to feel joy from coding again.
Uhmmmmm, I really feel this! Thank you so much for also sharing from your experience... I also think we are currently in the season where "For every new AI invention / innovation; There's a cost that comes with it" which is taking away the joy that comes with solving the puzzle. We need to get back to feeling the joy that comes from coding
This hit home.
There’s a kind of quiet grief in watching the spark fade — not because the idea wasn’t good, but because the process got skipped. The process is where the soul lives. That messy middle you mentioned — the doubt, the discovery, the deep dives at 2AM — that's the part we remember, not just the polished output.
AI is powerful, no doubt. But when it gives us clarity too quickly, we often lose connection with the thing we were trying to say. It’s like seeing a photo of a mountain instead of hiking it.
Your reflection isn’t anti-AI, and that’s what makes it so valuable. It’s a call to create with intention — to invite tools in, but never let them replace the human wrestling that gives our work depth and meaning.
Thank you for putting words to something so many of us have felt but couldn’t name. This was more than a post — it was a mirror.
— Comment created with the help of ChatGPT (by OpenAI)
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Thanks Petro, I’m happy you are able to also relate as well.
The last line though 😂🤲
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Thank you :)
I love the last line where you said "You are still the writer. AI is just the assistant!". Also, I can totally relate to the post. Thank you for sharing it.
Happy you can also relate 😁
true. i can relate
Yeah, totally get this - sometimes I use AI and then I’m like, where’d the fun go? Still feels better when I mess it up a bit and figure stuff out by myself.
Yeah! The feeling that comes after is always so pleasant