Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
2026-05-13 · 404 Media
Software developers are openly admitting that AI coding tools are turning their brains into mush, with one eloquently noting 'it's making me dumber for sure.' Turns out outsourcing your thinking to autocomplete on steroids has consequences — who could have possibly predicted that letting machines do your cognitive heavy lifting would atrophy your actual skills? The industry that built these tools is now discovering they're eroding the very expertise needed to verify if the AI output is correct.