SMRTR ProgrammingJan 14, 2026Dev.to

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

SMRTR summary

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.

SMRTR provides this summary for quick context. The original article belongs to Dev.to.

Read the original article
SMRTR Programming

Get the next batch of curated summaries in your inbox.

This archive is built from SMRTR newsletter summaries. Subscribe for hand-picked stories without the extra noise.