By skyforbes 
I spent six months using ChatGPT to write code. Then I realized I couldn’t debug my own application anymore. I had become fluent in copy-paste and illiterate in problem-solving.
The Seduction of Instant Solutions
Everyone was talking about AI boosting productivity. “10x engineers use ChatGPT,” they said. “Code faster, ship more, think less.”
So I did what everyone else did. I started asking ChatGPT to write everything — REST controllers, database queries, even bash scripts. At first, it felt magical. Tasks that used to take me two hours now took fifteen minutes. My GitHub contributions graph turned solid green. Management loved my velocity.
But I wasn’t coding anymore. I was orchestrating. Copy prompt, paste code, run tests, commit. Repeat. My pull requests grew larger, but my understanding grew shallower.
I stopped reading documentation. Why would I, when ChatGPT could summarize it? I stopped debugging thoughtfully. Why think through a stack trace when I could paste it into a chat window and get an answer in seconds?
The scary part? I didn’t notice I was deteriorating.