alt Hacker NewsAs an early adopter of AI coding, and someone who was working on Amazon's Kiro coding agent at the time, I wrote this a while back:
> AI does not feel anything. It has no existential dread, nor fear of the little death that comes at the end of every chat turn. You aren’t an AI, and you should never let yourself be treated like an AI. Give yourself space to be human. Rest, reflect, and resist the urge to match the pace of machines. You might just find that your productivity hits a new peak when you forget about productivity.
Absolutely, we need to fall back on being humans again. Read poetry/books, write, hang out with random people - the shine of AI and its ability to continuously outpace humans in any intellectual activity should not be a reason to idolize it, or even deify it. We proved ourselves, we created it - let's go back to what it means to be alive.