AI made coding not fun

Coding has, for the first time, become not fun. Our creativity, autonomy, and precision have been traded for code reviews, context switching, and duplicated code that works through some alchemy you're afraid to disturb.

There was a branching point at which using AI to help write code stopped being fun. This was around the time that developers started trading Copilot's basic line completion for a more cursor-style vibe coding IDEs.

In other words, when we started taking bigger blind steps with less control.