This article shares why a web engineer holding a Claude Code Max 20x plan has mostly stopped using AI for coding at work. It's not about abandoning AI — it's about narrowing down where I let AI take over.
Why I stopped having AI write my code
My growth pace slowed down
Looking back honestly, I was acquiring knowledge faster before I delegated most coding to AI. Once I drastically cut down on writing code by hand, I quietly gave up a side benefit: the investment in growth that came along for the ride with the act of writing.
In learning theory terms: output (writing) drives retention more strongly than input (reading), as evidenced by the Testing Effect — the cognitive psychology finding that recalling material through output strengthens long-term memory. By losing those writing opportunities, I lost a quietly efficient learning channel.
