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title: "💭 To Live In A World Without AI"
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date: 2026-03-26
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We f&*#ing said <a href="https://pype.dev" class="mention" data-name="Pype.dev | Nic Payne" data-bio="A quiet place for thoughts, learnings, and explorations by Nic Payne." data-avatar="https://cdn.statically.io/gh/pypeaday/pype.dev/main/pages/media/og-02.png" data-handle="@pype">@pype</a>, well f&*#ing said.  I think a lot of us are feeling this, we've pitched our brain into a bucket and we are no longer stretching it in the same way.  We still work in similar ways of old, with new ways of turning off and saying yes a bunch of times.  the best thing I can hope for is that as things get better we have fewer yes loops, and more architectural design debates and deep thoughts.  But I fear deep thoughts are gone to the way of "research the leading 10 frameworks and pick the best one for this project." and letting the clankers do the deep thinking.  Its signing us up for a weird distopia.

I think a lot of us wish we could undo what has happened and go back to actually understanding what we are doing, but the world has changed, and if you are building average shit, like the average person, using models trained on average people doing average shit you cant keep up anymore.

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