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.
Yea exactly, it's basically failed clickbaiting..
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...
What exactly do you mean by creative coding?
Like creating art via coding basically (the best way I can describe it). The library I used is p5.js (p5js.org/)
It's really easy to use! You can be creative on the art you want to make in coding such as having animations for sounds, color changer when it bounces, etc. I think you will have fun with this!!
Gotcha something cool, I think I'll be busy doing creative codding
Oooo a new rabbit hole. 😂 I was going to learn THREE.js but that got put on the backburner when I started working full time and going to school. Perhaps it will be time to revisit that again soon. I think I've seen this before. Thanks for sharing!
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?
🥰
Why not free lol
But I see what you mean. Unless they are using a local model and have the hardware to do so, idk. Though I can understand no one is going to spend 5K and in hope they maintain it. Though, there is already open source for photoshop already due to this, so might as well contribute. That will depend on its maintainability and how long it can last.
Your point about variety makes sense. I’d like to see more small debugging stories: the original symptom, the wrong assumption, and the test that finally exposed it. Those stay useful even when the tools mentioned in them are no longer fashionable.
Thanks Mahdi!
Yeah, you are right, content has been changed and shifted towards AI more.
Today, I read one another article which I found really useful, because I am building a system monitoring tui in Go and there was specific info about macOS that other OS don't support the same feature and I didn't have a clue about it which I learned by just reading that article. I want to see more different kind of topics that I can get hints and learn more about different things. I really like your articles, because reading them feels really good because of the tone of writing.
BTW, the article that I mentioned is this: Singature in macOS
Honestly, this is a refreshing perspective! 👏 Technology evolves, but the beauty of the developer community lies in the diversity of ideas—from clever CSS tricks and practical tutorials to creative experiments and real-world problem-solving. AI should expand our curiosity, not narrow the conversations we have. 🚀 Perhaps the real question isn’t what AI will change, but what we’ll continue creating beyond it. What non-AI topic would you love to see more of on DEV.to? 💡
The banner image is on point by the way. 😂
lol thank
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" :)
I feel this, and I’m saying that as someone who loves using AI, experiments with it constantly, and writes about it too. I am absolutely contributing to the thing I’m complaining about lol.
But you can enjoy something and still get tired of hearing about it every time you open your browser. Another model, another agent, another announcement that apparently changes everything. Sometimes I just want to read about someone making something interesting or figuring out a weird CSS problem. Whatever, just anything else really.
There are so many interesting things to learn and build, and I don’t want to forget about half of them because my entire feed has become the same conversation.
Even when someone uses AI to build a project, I’d often rather hear about the project itself. What problem did you run into? What surprised you? What did you learn? There’s usually a much more interesting story there than which tool generated the code.
So yeah, I completely feel what you’re talking about. Eventually though I hope that AI just becomes just one tool in a box of many, instead of the only one anyone wants to talk about.
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 just don't care. I open dev, I see a billion articles "how I clanked out a boring app that wasn't worth coding by hand", and I close dev. AI hype doesn't deserve my attention so it's not getting it.
I also don't care about the AI FOMO; at the end of the day, everything will change anyway once the AI bubble bursts and the new prices start to settle in. What role AI will actually play in the long term depends on how much it will really cost after that point and trying to predict that right now is pointless.
Right now I have zero reason to believe that AI will manage to both get drastically cheaper and still improve to where it's actually more than just another tool among many. Right now, it can't do shit correctly without being micromanaged to hell and back.
And that's assuming people even go along with it for long; the online tech bubble always makes it look like everyone loves AI, but there's a whole lot of people out there who despise it for plenty of valid moral reasons. People don't want AI in their products; they don't want AI art, they don't want AI writing, they don't want AI search results... People don't generally want AI at the scale the industry needs to fund itself. Niches like vibe coding will struggle to even fund AI, let alone convince people to put up with data centers, insane hardware prices, a new push for fossil energy and a massive leap towards techno-feudalism.
The solution is simple: write an AI Agent that filters out AI topics and builds your own newspaper.
That said, I figure AI is a tool like many others. Steam machines, railway networks, and the internet all gave us great architectural advantages before their bubbles popped. Most of which we still benefit. AI will be a greater benefit, but my 5 cents is: That's about it.
Just survive till the hype passes; we'll all still be employable by then (probably)
The line that hit me: "My fear is if we all know AI and if we remove AI from the equation from our lives, what do we truly know?"
I'm three weeks into Python — 31 articles published. And I've felt this fatigue without having a name for it.
Here's what I noticed: I write tutorials. Beginner Python stuff. Lists, dictionaries, functions, file handling. And every time I write one, I think: "Should I mention AI somewhere? Will it get more views if I do?"
That instinct is the problem. Not the AI itself — the pressure to make everything about AI because that's what gets clicks.
The articles that performed best for me weren't the AI-adjacent ones. They were the honest ones. "What 7 Articles in 7 Days Taught Me." "Why I Started Writing Online." Personal, specific, human. No AI angle at all.
I don't have a solution. But I think the first step is noticing when you're adding AI to a piece that doesn't need it. That's where the fatigue comes from — not from AI existing, but from AI being everywhere even when it shouldn't be.
Great post. I'm glad someone said it.
I think Khali nailed the distinction: it's not AI fatigue, it's content fatigue — and I'd push it one step further. The test I use when reading now is simple: could this piece exist if the author never ran the thing? If the answer is yes, it doesn't matter whether a human or a model wrote it. I'm tired of it either way.
There's an incentive side nobody in this thread has named yet, though. Build996 asked what content looks like "beyond AI," and part of the answer is structural, not stylistic. "I built X with AI in 4 hours" titles get clicked because they sell a shortcut, and the feed learns from our clicks. Fatigue is partly demand-shaped: we complain about the slot-machine posts while feeding the slot machine.
So my filter has become mercenary. A post earns my time when it contains a decision — a tradeoff the author actually made, a failure they measured, a cost they paid. That's the scarce ingredient no model can fake from the prompt alone, and it's why the pieces that survive in my memory are all pre-AI era in spirit: war stories, not showcases.
If you want a practical heuristic: read for scars, not demos.
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?
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.
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.
Felt this. I write about AI stuff too, so I'm part of the problem 😅 The posts I still enjoy are the ones where AI is a side character: a weird bug, a production mess, a "here's what I'd do differently." The tool isn't the story, the person is. I'd happily read a week of front pages that's just CSS tricks and war stories.
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.
What If AI Is Taking Something Away From Us?
I think many of us share the same feeling: artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. Everyone seems to be talking about it.
A few days ago, my mom, who is 63 years old, was telling me how she had made lasagna by following instructions from ChatGPT.
I was genuinely surprised. Not because she couldn't make lasagna on her own, but because it made me realize just how far this technology has reached into our everyday lives.
AI is no longer just a tool for building applications, writing code, or making money. These days, we ask it pretty much anything.
And that got me thinking: Is having instant answers to almost everything really such a good thing? Think about it for a moment.
We live in a world where instant gratification has become part of our everyday lives. Social media, online shopping, streaming platforms, and now artificial intelligence have all gotten us used to getting what we want almost immediately.
It's almost as if we're constantly chasing little bursts of instant satisfaction. But I can't help wondering whether this need to have everything so quickly is making us lose something along the way: the satisfaction of achieving something through our own effort.
Before 2022, I could spend days trying to fix a bug that had been reported at work. I'd read forums, watch tutorials, go through courses, and rack my brain trying to figure things out.
I'd try one approach, then another. I'd make mistakes, start over, and keep going.
Until, finally, I figured it out.
And honestly, there was something incredibly satisfying about finding what I believed, at that moment, was the best possible solution.
Today, all it takes is a simple prompt, and almost like magic, a solution appears within seconds.
I can't deny how amazing that is.
But at the same time, I feel that somehow we're missing out on those small victories that used to come from figuring things out ourselves.
It's a bit like playing a video game on easy mode. Sure, you'll probably reach the end much faster, but will you feel the same satisfaction of overcoming all those challenges?
I know what some people might say:
"Well, we'll just learn new skills."
"We need to learn how to use AI for programming."
"There will always be new challenges."
And maybe they're right.
I'm not saying artificial intelligence is bad, or that we should stop using it. I use it myself, and I know just how much easier it can make our work and everyday lives.
But today, I want to take a moment to reflect on something. A question that might be worth asking ourselves:
At what point does letting a machine help us think turn into letting it do the thinking for us?
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. 😎
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
Honestly, I can relate to this. AI is useful, but when every second article becomes “I built X with AI” or another breakdown of models, tokens, and agents, it starts to feel like déjà vu.
I think the part I miss most is the variety. Sometimes I just want to read a clever CSS trick, a weird debugging story, a small side project, or someone sharing something they learned the hard way.
Maybe AI fatigue isn't really about AI itself. It's about seeing the same topic become the default lens for everything. Hopefully we get back to a point where AI is just one tool developers use, rather than the main character of every developer story.
I like Ai but don't like it at the same time, I spent hours reading at night, debugging, learning programming and tech. Why a idea getter just use Ai to make it and most get sponsored or are hyped.
But I can see things differently it's about how you use the tool,
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?
What If AI Is Taking Something Away From Us?
I think many of us share the same feeling: artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. Everyone seems to be talking about it.
A few days ago, my mom, who is 63 years old, was telling me how she had made lasagna by following instructions from ChatGPT.
I was genuinely surprised. Not because she couldn't make lasagna on her own, but because it made me realize just how far this technology has reached into our everyday lives.
AI is no longer just a tool for building applications, writing code, or making money. These days, we ask it pretty much anything.
And that got me thinking: Is having instant answers to almost everything really such a good thing?
Think about it for a moment.
We live in a world where instant gratification has become part of our everyday lives. Social media, online shopping, streaming platforms, and now artificial intelligence have all gotten us used to getting what we want almost immediately.
It's almost as if we're constantly chasing little bursts of instant satisfaction.
But I can't help wondering whether this need to have everything so quickly is making us lose something along the way: the satisfaction of achieving something through our own effort.
Before 2022, I could spend days trying to fix a bug that had been reported at work. I'd read forums, watch tutorials, go through courses, and rack my brain trying to figure things out.
I'd try one approach, then another. I'd make mistakes, start over, and keep going.
Until, finally, I figured it out.
And honestly, there was something incredibly satisfying about finding what I believed, at that moment, was the best possible solution.
Today, all it takes is a simple prompt, and almost like magic, a solution appears within seconds.
I can't deny how amazing that is. But at the same time, I feel that somehow we're missing out on those small victories that used to come from figuring things out ourselves.
It's a bit like playing a video game on easy mode. Sure, you'll probably reach the end much faster, but will you feel the same satisfaction of overcoming all those challenges?
I know what some people might say:
"Well, we'll just learn new skills."
"We need to learn how to use AI for programming."
"There will always be new challenges."
And maybe they're right.
I'm not saying artificial intelligence is bad, or that we should stop using it. I use it myself, and I know just how much easier it can make our work and everyday lives.
But today, I want to take a moment to reflect on something. A question that might be worth asking ourselves:
At what point does letting a machine help us think turn into letting it do the thinking for us?
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
Generative AI writes the predictable average. Master developers are built in the edge cases.
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:
Commenters debate AI reliability and sycophancy
I argued with AI until it apologized for calling my course "AI Slop"
That's like having an internet fatigue back in the 90's. AI is the new "big thing" since late 2022.
Basically, though I can't speak from experience because I wasn't born in the 90s lol.
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
lol I see this everywhere XD
Appreciate it though :)
I guess it's the best time to take a chance and read articles, develop, test, automate while it is still make sense ;)
Fair enough!!!
Thanks, very timely post.
Thanks Zavu! Appreciate the read :)
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’m studying software engineering in the era of AI. I don’t know what it felt like in 2015 to build a webpage with zero AI and spend day and night scrolling through Stack Overflow to fix a bug. But what I do know is that whoever built that webpage back then has a story to tell. They did great.
We’re studying SE now. We can build a whole app or whatever, but we don’t really have our own thing because, at the end of the day, we’re vibe coders.
If I say I want to start from the basics now, it feels difficult. If I write about my beginner journey or whatever, I don’t get views. But when a new model launches, some cool guy writes an article about what he built with it using AI, and it gets a lot of views. Because that’s the marathon everyone is running in. So yeah, it feels exhausting. But yeah, it is what it is.
Here’s another humorous take on the topic. Hopefully, this brings some cheer and reminds that we actually are still in charge of AI. Well, maybe for a little while longer... 😂
The AI Content Firehose And Why So Much Of It Tastes Like Thin Gruel or Hotdog Water
What If AI Is Taking Something Away From Us?
I think many of us share the same feeling: artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. Everyone seems to be talking about it.
A few days ago, my mom, who is 63 years old, was telling me how she had made lasagna by following instructions from ChatGPT.
I was genuinely surprised. Not because she couldn't make lasagna on her own, but because it made me realize just how far this technology has reached into our everyday lives.
AI is no longer just a tool for building applications, writing code, or making money. These days, we ask it pretty much anything.
And that got me thinking: Is having instant answers to almost everything really such a good thing?
Think about it for a moment.
We live in a world where instant gratification has become part of our everyday lives. Social media, online shopping, streaming platforms, and now artificial intelligence have all gotten us used to getting what we want almost immediately.
It's almost as if we're constantly chasing little bursts of instant satisfaction.
But I can't help wondering whether this need to have everything so quickly is making us lose something along the way: the satisfaction of achieving something through our own effort.
Before 2022, I could spend days trying to fix a bug that had been reported at work. I'd read forums, watch tutorials, go through courses, and rack my brain trying to figure things out.
I'd try one approach, then another. I'd make mistakes, start over, and keep going.
Until, finally, I figured it out.
And honestly, there was something incredibly satisfying about finding what I believed, at that moment, was the best possible solution.
Today, all it takes is a simple prompt, and almost like magic, a solution appears within seconds.
I can't deny how amazing that is.
But at the same time, I feel that somehow we're missing out on those small victories that used to come from figuring things out ourselves.
It's a bit like playing a video game on easy mode. Sure, you'll probably reach the end much faster, but will you feel the same satisfaction of overcoming all those challenges?
I know what some people might say:
"Well, we'll just learn new skills."
"We need to learn how to use AI for programming."
"There will always be new challenges."
And maybe they're right.
I'm not saying artificial intelligence is bad, or that we should stop using it. I use it myself, and I know just how much easier it can make our work and everyday lives.
But today, I want to take a moment to reflect on something. A question that might be worth asking ourselves:
At what point does letting a machine help us think turn into letting it do the thinking for us?
I just joined DEV a few days ago, and this is one of the first things I noticed. 😅
I came here to learn from people who build things — canvas tricks, PSD parsing, weird side projects. But the front page is 90% AI talk. Not bad content, just... a lot of the same thing.
I'm building a browser-based creative suite (GalionToon — free, runs entirely in the browser, no uploads), and I've been writing about the "old-school" stuff: canvas performance, spatial caching, file parsing. Every time I publish, I wonder if it'll even be seen. So your post hits close.
Honestly, your question at the end stuck with me: "what will we expect content to look like beyond AI?" My guess as a newcomer: the same as before, just harder to find. The craft articles are still being written — they just don't trend as easily.
Curious to know: where do you usually find the non-AI stuff here? Any tags or authors worth following?
The signal to noise problem is real. The front page picks up on what gets reactions, and AI content is outengaging most other topics right now — feedback loop that's tough to break algorithmically.
The stuff I miss from that era was weirdly specific: a deep CSS counter styling guide, a bash shortcuts post that saved everyone 30 minutes. Practical and boring in the best way.
Your question at the end is the one worth sitting with. My guess is content bifurcates: pure AI noise on one side, hyper specific technical posts with nothing to do with it on the other. Any topic areas you want to see come back?