I stopped using the AI chat because it became very clear it wasn’t helpful or healthy, and it was in fact dangerous. But I kept using AI for coding at work, using it to take on more and more of the heavy-lifting to the point where I was just a code reviewer and a quality assurance tester for the features the coding harness would spit out. Getting a lot of tasks done, it can feel exhilarating. That is, until I realized, well, I’m basically just a hamster on a wheel, checking boxes, getting tickets done with no real purpose.