SMRTR ProgrammingJan 14, 2026Dev.to

My Coding Attention Span Is Gone. Is AI to Blame?

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A developer reflects on how AI coding assistants have fundamentally changed their workflow, creating dependency and anxiety around coding without AI help. They describe losing patience for debugging, deep focus abilities, and the satisfaction of problem-solving, while becoming skilled only at prompt engineering rather than actual development.

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