I have been writing a lot about AI lately, but this one is more personal than usual. Not a tutorial, not a hot take on some new model - just something I have been sitting with for a few weeks now.
Let's start from the beginning. A few weeks ago I was scrolling Twitter at around midnight, the way you do when you tell yourself just five more minutes and then it is suddenly 1 AM. A new benchmark had dropped. Someone posted a "10x developer with AI" thread screenshots and all. Someone else was live-coding a full-stack app in 20 minutes like it was nothing.
I closed the app. Opened my editor. And felt that very specific very familiar weight settle in.
The comparison nobody warned me about
I think I had been quietly comparing myself to AI for months without fully admitting it. Its speed. Its memory. Its bottomless confidence. The way it produces an answer without a single visible moment of wait is this actually right?
