AI made me lazy. I didn’t notice until it was too late.

I used to actually think through problems. Now I just ask. Here’s what that’s doing to my brain and whether “lazy” is even the right word. There’s a specific kind of shame that hits when you’re staring at a for-loop you’ve written a thousand times and you’re waiting. Just sitting there, cursor blinking, waiting for Copilot to finish the sentence for you. Not because you don’t know how. You absolutely know how. You just… stopped bothering. That was me, sometime last year. I didn’t notice it happe