Claude Code is amazing. It feels like cheating in the best way until it doesn't. The first time I dropped a vague comment and it gave me a fully working component, I was hooked. But somewhere along the way, I realized something weird was happening: I was coding less... and thinking less.
Let’s talk about that.
The Tools Got Better, But We Got Lazier
In 2022, you still had to know stuff. Now? You just prompt your way through half the job.
And sure, productivity skyrocketed. Ship faster, write fewer tests, scaffold full APIs in a couple of minutes. But here’s the tradeoff no one likes to talk about: we’re outsourcing thinking. Not tasks. Not code. Thinking.
