Signal
AI coding burnout
The tiredness is not keystrokes. It is the gap between "it works" and "I know why." You spend the day steering a model and go home unable to draw the system.
What it feels like
Every task starts with a prompt. Reviews are skims. A tool outage feels personal. You are productive and somehow less dangerous with a blank file than you were two years ago.
What actually helps
Not quitting. A weekly unaided hour. Reading diffs like they matter. Writing the design before the agent opens. Rebuild engineering skills after relying on AI by making ownership expensive again — in small doses.
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