You're here because you get it. Thousands of engineers are quietly drowning in AI fatigue and don't have a name for it yet. Here's how you can help them find what you found.
Friday, April 17 · 9:00 AM PDT · news.ycombinator.com
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2,000+ engineers took our AI Fatigue Quiz. The top answer to "Do you feel like a middleman?" was: "I ship code I don't understand." That's not burnout. That's something specific. → @clearing_ai
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"I recognize this exactly. The 'Explanation Requirement' practice (don't accept an AI suggestion until you can explain why) is the single thing that helped most. Small, concrete, actually works."
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"I used to be able to look at a piece of code and know immediately what was wrong. After a year of AI-assisted coding, I feel like I need AI to tell me the same thing. I used to be the person people came to. Now I'm just the person who knows how to prompt."
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"The 'Explanation Requirement' — not accepting an AI suggestion until I can explain why — changed everything. Suddenly the code I'm shipping is actually mine again."
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"I thought I was just tired. Turns out there's a name for what happens when AI does the hard parts and you feel yourself getting dumber. That's AI fatigue. This site named it."
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