The sense of achievement while using AI

Ever since AI tools emerged and became a thing my sense of achievement while using these tools became…a bit challenged I’d say. Whenever I had free time or some kind of innovative idea came into my mind to solve something that should generally be kept unsolved (like creating an Alexa app to ask her about the next arrival of Tram 21 in Berlin, Lichtenberg) I’d open my laptop, my eyes would pop and I’d spend hours or maybe a couple of days implementing the idea. It usually take a lot of time to do the little things like deployment, infra code or doing the bar minimum of CSS and user experience…duuuh. Now, I just open my beloved Cursor editor or open Lovable or anything similar and type a couple of prompts, keep telling the AI to fix a bug or two and I get my desired output almost 2x faster than I would do it myself. Don’t get me wrong here, I still think I’m better if the task includes deep dives or general engineering skills like performance improvements and what’s not, but doing these side small projects are just very easy nowadays. Sense Of Achievement I don’t know about you, but the process of developing such side projects is the key factor for my satisfaction and happiness…relying on these tools made my sense of achievement levels drops significantly and led sometimes to me just talk to an AI tool to help me validate the idea..and I eventually stop caring about implementing it, cause why should I? I even thought about passing this article to an AI tool to make it a bit interesting in terms of writing and more engaging cause my English is not perfect after all..do these AI tools take the sense of achievement from us eventually at work too? Cause come on, CEOs are coming with insane statements about vibe coding and using AI tools everywhere. My takeaways from this To be honest, I hate it and love it at the same exact time. Recently I have been creating some small utility tools for my life tasks and it is insanely good at doing some of the code for these tasks. At the same time, I think I should rely on these tools a bit less, let my imagination of how to implement something figure the heck of my side ideas a bit instead of jumping to a non stop agentic mode without even providing consensus for the outcome. What do you all think about this? How do you cope with this feeling or how do you feel about these tools eating your creativity like it does with me?

Apr 21, 2025 - 17:51

Ever since AI tools emerged and became a thing my sense of achievement while using these tools became…a bit challenged I’d say.

Whenever I had free time or some kind of innovative idea came into my mind to solve something that should generally be kept unsolved (like creating an Alexa app to ask her about the next arrival of Tram 21 in Berlin, Lichtenberg) I’d open my laptop, my eyes would pop and I’d spend hours or maybe a couple of days implementing the idea. It usually take a lot of time to do the little things like deployment, infra code or doing the bar minimum of CSS and user experience…duuuh.

Now, I just open my beloved Cursor editor or open Lovable or anything similar and type a couple of prompts, keep telling the AI to fix a bug or two and I get my desired output almost 2x faster than I would do it myself. Don’t get me wrong here, I still think I’m better if the task includes deep dives or general engineering skills like performance improvements and what’s not, but doing these side small projects are just very easy nowadays.

Sense Of Achievement

I don’t know about you, but the process of developing such side projects is the key factor for my satisfaction and happiness…relying on these tools made my sense of achievement levels drops significantly and led sometimes to me just talk to an AI tool to help me validate the idea..and I eventually stop caring about implementing it, cause why should I?

I even thought about passing this article to an AI tool to make it a bit interesting in terms of writing and more engaging cause my English is not perfect after all..do these AI tools take the sense of achievement from us eventually at work too? Cause come on, CEOs are coming with insane statements about vibe coding and using AI tools everywhere.

My takeaways from this

To be honest, I hate it and love it at the same exact time. Recently I have been creating some small utility tools for my life tasks and it is insanely good at doing some of the code for these tasks. At the same time, I think I should rely on these tools a bit less, let my imagination of how to implement something figure the heck of my side ideas a bit instead of jumping to a non stop agentic mode without even providing consensus for the outcome.

What do you all think about this? How do you cope with this feeling or how do you feel about these tools eating your creativity like it does with me?