u/nervous-dev

I started learning to code in mid 2022 pre AI era purely out of curiosity. I spent more than a year trying out different types of fields and tech stacks. Web development, App Development, JavaScript, Python, C++, Java, and what not. That was me before I knew what were the possibilities.

In 2024, I chose web development. And started building projects for fun. Eventually got an internship in my first semester of college. Next year I got a full time job with a decent salary. Everything happened. So did the AI revolution.

Fast forward to 2026. All I do is add skills, setup MCP servers, prompt, watch AI do my work, review it, and this loop goes on till the end of the day. Because now I've become a condom between claude code and the codebase. I prevent AI from turning it into a slop.

WTF!!!

I entered this field for the sole reason of creating things, but all I do is basically consume what AI is creating for me. And to some extent it feels like scrolling reels/tiktok mindlessly.

I wanted to be a creator but forced to turn into a consumer?

FUCKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

I’ve noticed that everyone seems to be building the same AI wrappers over and over, then selling them to each other.

It feels like a bubble, and I’m probably in it too.

For the past couple of months, I’ve wanted to build something genuinely useful. But every idea that comes to mind is another AI wrapper for coding, workflows, productivity, or some variation of the same thing.

It feels like I’m stuck in a loop.

And the more I try to break out of it, the harder it seems to escape.

How do you actually break out of this loop and start seeing problems worth solving again?