"Rather Be Unemployed Than Write 1 Line of AI-Assisted Code"
If someone tells you that AI can make programmers write code several times faster, you probably won't find it surprising. But if a veteran coder with over 20 years of coding experience tells you: "I've been using AI for more than a year, and I…
If someone tells you that AI can make programmers write code several times faster, you probably won't find it surprising. But if a veteran coder with over 20 years of coding experience tells you: "I've been using AI for more than a year, and.
He has been coding for more than 20 years, and has long used AI programming tools such as Cursor and Claude Code in the past year and a half. According to most people's imagination of AI programming, he should have been one of the.
What Happened
However, in the end, he made a seemingly very counter-trend decision: stop using AI programming tools, and even stop using AI in his daily life. The reason is not that AI is not powerful enough.
Brett first came into contact with AI programming tools around 2022 to 2023.
In this way, AI programming had always been something that had "nothing to do with him" in Brett's eyes, until the spring of 2025.
By the summer and autumn of 2025, Brett began to further use Agentic Coding.
Key Details
On the contrary, it is precisely because it is so capable — when AI does more and more of the programming work for him, Brett began to wonder why he still needs to write code himself. It feels like overnight, the industry.
It can chat, comfort, agree, and give you suggestions in very natural language — but it is not a human after all.
After all, one of the most dangerous parts of large models is not that its answers look like those from a machine, but that it is becoming more and more like a "human".
This incident also made him start to worry about another problem: if even an experienced programmer can be affected by this, what about ordinary users?
Why It Matters
At that time, GitHub Copilot had already been integrated into development environments such as VS Code. Its most typical capability is automatic code completion.
To his surprise, after he stopped using them, he felt that he "returned to reality" again.
All these things added up, making Brett start to re-examine AI chat tools, and finally stopped using AI chat.
What Reports Say
Coverage of the story so far points to:
Continued reporting by 36Kr as more details emerge
