u/theRealSachinSpk

I use Claude code and GPT/Codex/Copilot for most of my coding, writing and deep work. Have been for months. And somewhere along the way I picked up some odd habits:

• I keep rewriting the same codebase/paragraph 6 or 7 times because the AI keeps giving me some sort of a "better" version
• Genuinely not knowing when something is finished anymore (I don't even know if what I write nowadays looks good)
• Lying in bed at 1am mentally re-editing something I already submitted
• Staying up way too late because "one more prompt" feels low effort and just one step away
• Defaulting to the AI's phrasing over mine, even when mine was fine (Like every text is fed into some chatbot for revision)
• I can write the logic myself. I know this. But I still end up deferring to whatever the agent spits out

I don't think this is fatigue. Fatigue feels like exhaustion. This feels more like my brain is stuck in a revision loop it can't exit. A few months ago my anxiety got noticeably worse. Of course a lot was going on in my personal life, but there was a constant background hum. Then I started having panic attacks, (I have had them before but suddenly spawned outta nowhere). I went to my doctor about it. We talked through the usual stuff like sleep, work, stress. When I described my daily routine, she flagged how much time I was spending in these AI feedback loops. She suggested I look into whether the tool usage itself might be part of what's driving it.

Around the same time I brought this up with a friend who works in psychology. She mentioned some parallels with research around compulsive feedback/revision patterns. She gave some more insights and helped me put together a short survey to see if other heavy users are experiencing similar things.

I am really trying to research a bit more around this topic to find parallels. Especially around how this affects productivity aspects on a day to day basis. I’m not making claims here and I’m definitely not anti-AI. I’m just starting to wonder whether these tools have some cognitive side effects we havent really discussed about,

has anyone felt this? or is it just me?

My sister realised her Cbse application number has been entered incorrectly while downloading the hall ticket,

Cooked or what?

I've mailed them, actually twice,

And phone called kea, they said it's a problem but they're working on it (I'm guessing they'll have a window to edit)

But has anyone faced this before? Need some advice

Update on this -- I got tired of rebuilding OAuth for FastAPI projects, so I made a small CLI for it
by u/theRealSachinSpk in FastAPI

https://i.redd.it/dsous9vidjxg1.gif

Shipped v1.1.0 based on some of the feedback here and conversations I had after posting.

What changed:

• Added Discord, Spotify, Microsoft, and LinkedIn as providers (6 total now)
• Added PKCE support (OAuth 2.1) -- the thing I mentioned in the original post. You can enable it on any provider with one line
• The oauth-init CLI now scaffolds all 6 providers with PKCE out of the box
• Built an interactive OAuth debugger (Learn Mode) into the tutorial app -- it pauses at each step of the flow and shows you the actual HTTP requests, the token exchange body, the raw provider response, everything

That last one came from thinking about what u/ar_tyom2000 mentioned about fastapi-oauth2. There are great libraries that handle OAuth as middleware (please check it out), I'll close this up by letting you debug what's happening. The debugger shows the authorization URL parameters, the callback code, the token exchange POST, and the raw userinfo JSON. Useful if you're learning or if something breaks and you need to figure out why.

Also wrote up a longer walkthrough on Medium if anyone wants the full picture: Medium Article

GitHub: REPO
PyPI: pip install oauth-for-dummies

Thanks for the feedback last time -- it shaped where this went.