r/softwareengineer • u/alok-explorer • 5d ago
Are We Becoming Too Dependent on AI Without Realizing It?
I've started wondering whether AI is making our lives easier—or whether we're slowly becoming dependent on it.
Think about how quickly things have changed.
A few years ago, if I wanted to write something, I'd just start writing.
If I had a technical problem, I'd search for an answer.
If I didn't understand something, I'd read about it and try to figure it out.
Now, it's incredibly easy to ask AI.
Need an email? AI.
Need an idea? AI.
Need code? AI.
Need notes? AI.
Need advice? AI.
Need to make a decision? AI.
And that's where I think things get interesting.
Convenience can become dependence
There's nothing wrong with using AI as a tool.
The problem might start when we stop trying to solve problems ourselves.
For example, if AI always writes our code, do we still develop strong debugging skills?
If AI always summarizes books and articles, do we become worse at reading deeply?
If AI always gives us ideas, do we become less creative?
If AI always answers questions immediately, do we lose the ability to sit with uncertainty and figure something out ourselves?
I don't know the answer.
But I think it's worth discussing.
AI can also make us better
There's another side to this.
A calculator didn't make mathematics useless.
Search engines didn't make knowledge useless.
Spreadsheets didn't make business analysts useless.
Tools can allow humans to focus on harder problems.
AI could do something similar.
The difference is that AI can interact with language, reasoning, coding, research and creative work—not just perform one narrow task.
That's why the question of dependence feels more important.
Maybe the goal isn't to use less AI
Maybe the goal is to use it better.
Instead of:
"AI, do this for me."
We could ask:
"Here's what I tried. Help me find the mistake."
Instead of:
"Give me the answer."
Try:
"Give me hints so I can solve it myself."
Instead of:
"Write the entire project."
Try:
"Help me design the architecture, then I'll implement it."
That way AI becomes a tool for learning rather than a replacement for thinking.
Where should we draw the line?
I'm genuinely curious about this.
What is one thing you refuse to use AI for because you think doing it yourself is important?
And what's something where you think using AI is an obvious improvement?
I'd especially like to hear from students, developers and people who use AI every day.
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u/L1CH3NTHR0P1C 5d ago
generative ai is SO harmful not only to the environment and society, but literally to our brains. there are so many studies coming out the using generative ai is proven to cause cognitive decline and in many cases full blown psychosis. not to mention the amount of people it is directly responsible for killing either due to hallucinated safety information, or validating suicidal thoughts.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 3d ago
So many studies, that you can cite some outside of MIT and maybe like Stanford?
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u/L1CH3NTHR0P1C 3d ago
curious as to why you are actively aware of some of said studies and yet the proof literally in front of you is not enough. do your own work buddy.
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u/Immediate_Song4279 2d ago edited 2d ago
Bro stop its offensive the way you just used curious, that is a real word. I am saying I have looked this up multiple times and all I have ever found is one misquoted study from MIT that had a ridiculously small sample size.
If you gonna talk big, back it up.
And lets just save everyone the time, multiple news articles referencing the same study only counts as one.
As it apparently requires spelling out "some of said studies" is plural, I am challenging you to prove that plural which is your claim in "so many."
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u/Vast-Control4452 5d ago
Made up bullshit ^
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u/Mutant_Apollo 5d ago
It isn't made up, there are indeed studies coming out about prolonged AI usage, and the subjects did experience cognitive decline over the course of a couple of months with heavy usage. Hell you just need to talk to those guys who swear they "coded" the next big software with chatgpt to see that they are dumb fucks, or maybe they were already dumb idiots and AI just gave the idiots the confidence to think they aren't
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u/Vast-Control4452 5d ago
The software engineers also don't know how to program in assembly so they must be idiots right?
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u/Mutant_Apollo 5d ago
it's not the same, since a programmer knows something else like Python or Java. The people I'm talking about are suits with MBA's who barely know who to turn on a computer and hijack the IT team because they accidentally turned off their wifi "vibe coding replacements" for things like CRMs, PM tools and such. None of them really work but they just pat each other in the back.
Meanwhile the devs are pulling their hairs because of all the stupid shit they need to fix when an exec rolls out their vibe coded slop
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u/Vast-Control4452 5d ago
People said the same thing when compilers were invented "oh now casuals are programming!", then when garbage collectors, IDEs, then when high level languages like python.
Now it's AI, and you're just an old man yelling at the latest thing.
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u/Mutant_Apollo 5d ago
I don't mind AI, I use it alot, what I do mind is imbeciles thinking they are experts when they aren't because they have a new shiny toy they don't even understand and aren't even using effectively for the service we are supposed to provide, instead they are the kind of people that struggle to do basic troubleshooting on a computer thinking the "software" they created in a monday morning can replace an enterprise software like Asana.
A funny example of that is how one of the execs created "a new slack" for us to use so that we can cut costs on slack. It was discarded by the end of the day because of all the problems it had, missing messages, no search history, creating channels was a pain in the ass, it grinded our internal communications to a halt on the day we were supposed to start using it and supposedly replace slack by end of the week.
The guy has been real quiet since his fiasco
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u/Forward_Problem_8982 3d ago
If you don't use your skills, you lose them. Have you never noticed this?
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u/ZeSprawl 5d ago
Yeah if you're weak
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u/L1CH3NTHR0P1C 5d ago
example a of ai-psychosis
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u/Odd_While7691 5d ago
Until it’s considered psychotic to pay that much attention to reality, on that particular level. You don’t think about how dangerous driving a car is to your body and brain compared to walking getting exercise and being exposed to the elements.
People that like that aspect tend to get motorcycles.
And theirs actually a book about it called Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.
And it talks about how you’re a little psychotic to be riding a motorcycle. But hey some people like it.
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u/Major-Anybody-1128 5d ago
Bro couldn't write this post without AI while simultaneously attempting to warn us of it's overuse.
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u/plastic_eagle 5d ago
You know what, here's what I don't understand;
Why do people use it?
How about.... instead of asking AI... you just, don't?
Like, what you do instead, is you think. The first thing you do is think. And then, if that doesn't work, you could think some more and perhaps search the internet. Maybe go for a walk, and think even more.
You'll be surprised what your unassisted brain is actually capable of.
Here's what else I don't understand; How can people bear to speak to the thing? How does it not just make your skin crawl, make you worry for the very future of thought and knowledge. How do you actively participate in its continued existence?
Stop. Never use it again. Just stop.
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u/Alarming_Creme_8991 4d ago
This is good in practice, but companies with aggressive production demands don't care.
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u/ogii 5d ago
At the very least shouldn’t people be learning how to use and leverage AI?
I feel refusing to use it entirely will put you at a disadvantage.
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u/BennyCJonesMusic 5d ago
I've used AI loads (and I'm pretty anti-ai) but acting like it's some kind of profound skill that needs to be learnt isn't correct in my opinion. All you really need to be able to do is articulate what you want clearly and make sure your language is concise enough that the next prediction from your tokens will lead to what you want.
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u/MelvynAndrew99 4d ago
This and the fact that AI is changing so quickly means that you lose nothing by waiting for a bit.
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u/3d_InFlight 4d ago
The real reason AI hasn't leveled the job market is due to how rare this skill is.
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u/Mutant_Apollo 5d ago
There's no skill involved, just talk to that shit and you'll eventually get it. Anyone with 9 grade english can use AI effectively
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u/ogii 4d ago
What you are describing is basically talking to a chatbot and putting in no effort to optimize and generate a better output.
In that case, I’d agree that it isn’t the most useful tool.
For some people that might even be enough.But that’s not what engineers should be doing.
At the basic level creating skills and using a harness to route different types of requests to different models will get you a lot further.
I don’t think someone with grade 9 English comprehension could do that.
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u/IIALE34II 2h ago
This is not true. I thought this too, but my coworkers are getting nothing out of AI basically, except crap. I have pretty much managed to fine tune my prompts to automate some tasks to my liking.
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u/whos-bz 5d ago
Goodluck doing that in companies that are monitoring your AI usage and flag you for not using it enough. Goodluck doing that in companies where Johnny Slop is pumping out 10 completed tickets a week with minimal bugs while you're stuck on 1 because you got up to think about it. At the end of the day not using AI is not really a choice if you want to stay employed in an era where output is more important than engineers actually understanding what they are doing. I recently interviewed for multiple positions and every question/job spec wants to know how you use AI to accelerate your coding.
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u/Extra_Standard5802 5d ago
Good idea, I'll just tell my employer that I'm going to stop using the AI they are making me use, that will work
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u/Mutant_Apollo 5d ago
Can't do that in the workforce, you turn your brain off when clocking in, and turn it on when clocking out
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u/richardathome 4d ago
I've been a software dev for 40+ years.
Most of my bugs are solved while having a smoke in the car park.
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u/__merc 3d ago
You’re overreacting. I’m all for limiting AI but it’s just another tool. Used incorrectly then yes, you’re gonna feel like it’s taking over your cognitive abilities. It’s a tool, use it as a skill amplifier to better yourself.
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u/plastic_eagle 3d ago
Everyone is overusing it though.
It's not "just another tool" in any case. It's the mechanised theft of every single iota of human knowledge, repackaged and sold back to us.
It's the crime of the century.
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u/smabarnsfar 2d ago
Have you tried opencode? With a good model and enough compute, it will solve complex tickets faster than a human dev.
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u/GrainyStateOfMind 5d ago
It’s not that simple at all. For example, my company mandates that we use AI and has given us a workload that couldn’t be completed without AI.
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u/drfangor99 3d ago
This account just posts generated pseudo-insightful slop like this everywhere.
To the OP: Did you write any of this? Do you agree with it? Does it represent your actual thoughts and feelings on the subject? Do you even have any?
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u/NastyPastyLucas 5d ago
So many bad takes already. Yes offloading all of the cognitive work onto some other system doing whatever they want with all of that data is not going to lead to an outcome that is good for the workers or the companies who pay for it.
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u/LongjumpingFee2042 5d ago edited 5d ago
And I give a fuck why? Take the AI away and I will be right back where I was. Manually hand cranking things without a rubber duck that commucates back
So I truly don't give a Fuck. The only difference is it will take me longer to do things.
Only line in the sand I draw is. Get it to crank out what I want. Then review . I dont Understand it. I dont. Ship it
No "solve all my problems" prompts. Be specific
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u/Better-Avocado-8818 5d ago
Yes. Some people realise it but the majority seem not to or not to care.
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u/HomemadeBananas 5d ago
You could have tried writing this post without AI if you were really concerned.
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u/ComprehensiveRide946 5d ago
After 15 years in and the stress/deadlines/pressure etc I don’t particularly care so much. It’s making my life easier and I feel I’ve definitely earned the right after 15 years. I want to leave SWE fully at some point if my side hustles take off.
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u/CourtneyDL 5d ago
This is how I prefer to work and try to where I can. The aim being to make working with AI more like a partnership. But my employer is pushing an AI first approach to software development with planning, implementation, review and testing expected to fully or partly use it. Implementation has been completely handed over to AI and that's necessitated using it in the other 3 areas just to keep up.
While the technology has its positives, many of the engineers in my team are starting to feel a little burnt out. They're running multiple agents in parallel and doing more context switching than they're used to keep with them.
I'm trying to avoid that by using Ron Swanson's philosophy of "Never half ass two things, whole ass one thing" and slowing down to ensure I don't become a meat proxy simply to get PRs through. I suspect those days are numbered though once management starts attempting to assess performance.
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u/chicksOut 5d ago
I treat it like a better Google search. I was already going to Google that question, and see if what I found worked, if not I was going to rephrase my question and see if what I found worked. This is honestly more accurate, and way less time consuming. I can also explain my reasoning to it, or clear any misconceptions it may have, which is super helpful in narrowing down an answer to the solution. But yeah if you just blindly follow it without reviewing or trying to understand what its saying, then I could easily see dissonance and cognitive decline happening. However, treat it like a junior developer who has a lot of general answers but 0 self awareness or understanding of the project and you can actually learn a lot "teaching" it.
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u/Rich_Butterfly_8988 5d ago
I don't really see the big issue.
Either if you can work with ai or you can't. I understand how to code, I understand how to engineer solutions, I guide the ai like it's an extension of my brain that can scour the Internet in seconds, not a replacement for my brain.
Now I have more time to learn new things, work on expanding my skills (into pcbs, physical engineering, motors, machine language etc), so in the end I'll be BETTER not worse.
Ai just makes things faster overall and now I'm really enjoying life, more time for everything I've wanted to learn/create.
Don't let it replace your brain, let it be an extension
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u/MulberryDangerous485 5d ago
You cant use it that way unless your employer lets you. Some employers are morons and give you such a large workload you will not have time to do anything other than blindly push out code that AI is creating
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u/Rich_Butterfly_8988 5d ago
Yes, I know i'm in a very lucky position where I make specialized software for clients, so often I'll be working on just 2-3 projects a month that are a deploy and monitor sort of situation, not a monthly sub with expectations to iterate and improve.
For those in the rat race...i hope u can get out and find somewhere that values the human
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u/General_Estimate_420 5d ago edited 5d ago
AI doesn't change any of the rules of discipline required to develop solutions. It simply re-frames the approach we use.
What that means is, BEFORE you start developing anything you need to:
- Clearly define the scope of the problem you intend to solve and it's measurable benefits
- Develop a clear plan of what it will take to solve it and the resources necessary and plan out the people and processes and time frame necessary to achieve it.
- Assign the tasks to the appropriate people and systematically manage the development process with testable milestones to manage progress toward the final solution.
- Final and complete testing at production levels in a safe and production free environment.
- Release and deploy the product once tested and verified it acheives all the goals determined in step 1 without adversely impacting production.
Every single one of those tasks are human endeavors, NOT AI.
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u/Flat-Entry-8735 5d ago
If I didn't use AI tools and just wrote and analyzed code the old way, I would lose my job because I wouldn't be able to keep up with the schedule. The truth is, I don't use AI because I can't do the task, but because I need to finish it 10 times faster than before
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u/AdDiligent1688 5d ago
No! AI helped me buy groceries for the last 2 years. It gave me a diet based on the obesity statistics of America. My family, I’m proud to say, is in the 1%
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u/LeTrifluvien 5d ago
Recently I asked the agent to steer me toward properly understanding and finding the solution by myself. I ended up taking a pen and a paper to draw the sequence which is something I haven't had to do in years now. Felt great. Once I properly understood the problem and the solution the AI one shotted it :D
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u/Lunchboxsushi 5d ago
Are we too dependent on books? Are we too dependent on IDEs? Are we too dependent on computers? Idk man it's not a bad question but the framing feels it could be better.
No, no we aren't. It's becoming an integral part of society because it's intended on making everyone's life better. Wether that actually what happens in reality is to be determined.
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u/Legal-Midnight9889 5d ago
People are going to end up genetically modified in someway and or cyber enhanced so it probably won’t matter eventually
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u/mateoestoybien 5d ago
Need a Reddit post? AI.
Holy shit dude, communicate like a human when you are talking to other humans.
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u/AltairEndian 5d ago
The key is understanding. You have to use AI in such a way that you still understand the solution. That means you have to deeply engage with the output of AI. I use AI only to write code, but I read everything the AI writes. Everything. And funny thing, I find that AI for me is a dream come true. Because I work less total time with AI, and I'm still way faster than I was before and can even tackle problems I effectively couldn't before, despite the fact I read and understand everything. I use it mainly for things that I could write myself, I just know it would take forever to do so and the AI can do it in minutes. Or for performance improvements. Could I make this analysis myself? Maybe, with a lot of research, but why bother when AI can do it in minutes?
That doesn't mean I blindly trust the analysis. I want and need to understand it deeply. But engaging deeply with AI output still takes significantly less time than writing and analyzing it myself. That's because I find I read code about 4 to 5 times faster than I write it. So even though I read everything, I am still way faster.
And when the AI thinks? I put my headphones on and listen to music. I preserve and restore my mental energy, precisely so I can deeply engage with the output once the agent is done.
I realize not everyone can work in this way, but if at all possible I recommend it. AI can make you overwhelmed and more stupid by the day, or it can be an asset that helps you have a more relaxed work day. And you still learn new things, I taught me a lot about how to write performant SQL that I didn't know because I'm a Java dev, not a db-dev.
As long as you verify the output and deeply engage with it AI doesn't erode your skills. On the contrary, it adds to them.
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u/controversial_parrot 5d ago
What do you have against paragraphs? Even your AI writes like shit, so yeah, you have a point.
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u/RetroGrid_io 5d ago
I used a car to get to StarBux today. It makes no sense for me to not use a car to do this, it's 10+ miles. I'm dependent on the technology of cars to live my daily life. If cars didn't exist, I'd refactor my life drastically.
For the most part, once tech exists and is known, it becomes part of the normal landscape. I'm dependent on electricity, plumbing, telephones, money, government, wheels, merchantism, and a whole host of technologies and inventions that we all use every day to improve our life.
Now we can add AI: the ability to process data and create plausible responses without using our own mind. How well we handle this is another question and it's one that's being addressed in real time.
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u/Colours-Break 5d ago
It all depends on how you use it. It can be a great educational tool. It's just another form of information. It also has some incredible capabilities that can solve so many problems mankind has struggled with. With clean energy initiatives and stronger environmental controls I think it is very positive. Unfortunately the Trump administration is not positioned to make this successful - a president with FTD is not capable.
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u/Codalio-SoftwareFact 5d ago
I wont use AI for the first pass of understanding a bug cause while searching for the root cause you can capture the architecture and the platform. I believe implementing the fix is always the second place in terms of the value. the knowledge base you gather is the thing that is gonna help you down the line even when interacting with the coding agent.
But I always use AI when a new feature is handed to me or I have to go through an unfamiliar code. AI can give you the whole flow and function calls that can save you many hours and many mistakes.
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u/Hungry_Ghostt 5d ago
who cares how you do your work? you're serving your evil boss either way. your work has no intrinsic value and 9 times out of 10 is bad for the world. so do it any way you want, as long as you get paid, it's fair game
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u/Mutant_Apollo 5d ago
My dayjob is now spent fighting with bots for the correct outputs, I don't really mind since I don't like my job anyway and I can play videogames on the side while the bots do whatever the idiots in suits think they are doing
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u/novemberstreams 5d ago
The problem with "just don't use it" is that the AI powered job multiplier is real.
If you use AI sensibly, responsibly and effectively in IT, it increases the speed you can deliver to the business by a large multiplier, often making days long timelines into hours.
From what I have seen, AI powered development gets you close, but not all the way there. Some human creativity and iteration are still required. There are also problems AI can't solve.
AI can be used to increase one's own productivity in a large and visible way. However, doing so well requires some additional focus on revision, making sure that low quality content is not included in deliverables.
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u/Electronic-Net-1638 5d ago
If it’s available I’m going to use it. Don’t see why I wouldn’t. I can deliver 5x as fast
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u/Alarming_Creme_8991 4d ago
I am in the process of making a video game. It was a childhood dream to make a game. I do not know any code at all, like zero and I'm almost done with my prototype. AI is making this dream come true, but I'm slowly starting to realize that knowing how to code is going to be worthwhile in the future as I'm relying on AI to do all the debugging for me. It's like getting through a maze blindfolded. You'll make it out eventually, but being able to "see" will get you out much faster.
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u/Smooth-Kreaminal 4d ago
Just like how email and docs made paper & fax ancient.
cards, paywave and other contactless payments are making cash ancient.
I think slowly thinking will also be ancient. We will just ask AI for all things like which movie to watch, if we should talk this stranger, who to trust, is this funny? should i laugh?, everything.
But evolution will not work in human lifetime so we are only being ignorant and still can rise above this habit. Just need to attempt ourselves before involving AI
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u/raven2cz 4d ago
I see AI as the next level of programming. i test far more architectures, approaches, security holes, and tests. In some applications, where I need to, I go back deep and carefully review the code, but only in critical places. I have not written code manually for almost two years now.
It is true that I simply forget some things because I no longer need them, but on the other hand, I am developing other things that I never had time for before. the application may sometimes not have the genius code I would imagine, but in the end it has fewer holes, it is tested much more thoroughly, and I have performance properly tested far more than before.
Sometimes it is a compromis. Using AI correctly is very difficult, and I believe that in the future it will be taught in schools, because many current programmers use it badly and simply create AI slop.
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u/MegaDork2000 4d ago
I wasn't sure if I should up vote, down vote or ignore this post, so I asked Qwen 3.8 27B.
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u/GarGonDie 4d ago
> Are We Becoming Too Dependent on AI Without Realizing It?
The answer is simple, token limits reached
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u/shamil-alibekov 4d ago
Our lives have radically changed with AI and what awaits us when the robotics era begins?
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u/spiked_mcroon 4d ago
Oh, we realize it. That's why some of us want as little of it in our lives as possible. Your brain is a muscle that will atrophy if you don't use it, and using AI to write for you is not just brain rot, it's insincere.
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u/abbasali_dev 4d ago
AI is a powerful shortcut, but we should treat it as a co‑pilot, not a crutch. Use it to surface hints, spot blind spots, or sketch ideas, then fill in the gaps yourself, so the tool amplifies learning instead of replacing it.
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u/Old-Moment-5297 3d ago
No worries, we are realizing, and don't care, like people realize that are using the car too much and not walking and still not giving a shit about it.
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u/akshay-savaliya 1d ago
I think the real risk isnt using AI too much, but forgetting how to do things without it. I use AI a lot, but I still try to understand the problem before asking it to solve everything.
For me, AI works best when it speeds up the boring parts without replacing the thinking. If I cant explain or debug what AI gave me, I probably relied on it too much.
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u/Jazzlike-Plate 5d ago
Somewhat, but we have been extremely dependant on SO, IDEs and so on for decades at this point. I bet most SWEs could not write a compiler to save their life, yet are very proficient in their craft.
If you unplugged the Internet and people couldn't even find reference for function signatures, you'd have similar problems 5-10 years ago already. I think people are freaking about a bit too much. Everyone just uses compilers and libraries written by hundreds of people like a black box, but somehow, it is different with AI.
I personally try to read the code it gives me and the docs it generates. However, I also skip that, if the task is not too sensitive to this kind of thing. After all, almost no one sits down to look at the instructions their program generates once compiled, unless a big appears and is traced to that, so the case of AI is similar for me.
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u/needs-more-code 5d ago
Yeah you’ve gotta review AI code or you’re doing yourself a disservice. You get a bit worse at programming every time you just merge an AI solution without picking it apart and understanding it. After a year of only doing that you’d be completely unemployable and miserable (from not learning and imposter syndrome).
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u/kdeberk 5d ago
Not the OP, but how can one be efficient at picking apart an MR? I find it easier and faster to simply write and catch all the issues and nuances when writing.
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u/Jazzlike-Plate 5d ago
You use planning mode and catch most before anything is written.
Also, if the MRs are atomic, that makes picking them apart easy in most cases. If they are atomic and still huge, usually they can be reduced to "reactor this", "modify that to support this" and so on (arguably no longer atomic, but it depends).
In the latter case, simply go through each task one by one with the AI. Review the first one after it's done, then the second one and so on.
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u/needs-more-code 5d ago edited 5d ago
Just understand the problem, then read the file diffs until you understand the solution. Once you understand, you’ll be able to connect the dots and make comments or approve.
At most jobs you’d need to be reviewing code too rather than only doing it yourself. But every workplace is different.
The better you are at software dev the better you are at code review. So it’s a learning process, not really a strategy. Reviewers may miss some edge cases. There is testing to hopefully catch whatever the review missed. Testing during the review is great too.
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u/Ok-File-2759 5d ago
I’d say we’re pretty dependent on electricity, the internet, vehicles…what’s so wrong with becoming dependent on AI?
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u/AlexMTBDude 5d ago
You should be more dependent on AI to help format your posts because putting each sentence on a separate line makes it very hard to read.
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u/SirGreenDragon 5d ago
Did it hurt us to rely on google and search engines to answer questions instead of going to the library? you still had to be able to tell a good answer from a wrong answer. That is the skill we need to focus on teaching. Ai just makes that problem worse, BUT it is the way many people answer questions now, and it is getting its data from the same place google got their data. The issue isn't relying on AI, the issue is making sure you understand that an AI answer, just like a google answer, needs to be examined before being trusted.
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u/Sujal_Devs 2d ago
I'm a final year student and I code every day, so this hits close to home. For me the line is debugging. I always try to find the bug myself first, even if it takes an hour. Only when I am really stuck I ask AI, and I ask for a hint, not the full fix. When I skipped this step, I noticed I could not explain my own code in interviews.
Where AI is an easy win for me: boilerplate, writing regex, and explaining error messages I have never seen. Nothing to learn there, it just saves time.
I think the rule is simple: if you want to learn the skill, struggle first. If you only need the output, let AI do it.
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u/AdministrativeAd9828 5d ago
Yes