I Ship Faster Than Ever. I've Never Felt More Lost

The tools got faster. My life didn't slow down. Just sharing my journey on this new AI world When I quit my job, I had a plan. I was going to build things. Ship fast. Use AI to do in weeks what used to take months. Claude Code, Cursor, agents — I had the whole arsenal. The future was here, and I was going to ride it. The first two weeks were a blur. I coded from morning until my token limits hit. Then I waited for them to reset. Then I coded again. I skipped meals, ran on coffee, got terrible sleep. I wasn't just --dangerously-skip-permissions , I was skipping health, fitness, nutrition, socializing. Everything that wasn't shipping got deprioritized to zero. I didn't notice it happening. That's the dangerous part. The Expansion Nobody Talks About Here's what the "10x developer" crowd won't tell you: AI doesn't save you time. It saves you execution time. And then your brain fills that gap with more ideas, more iterations, more ambition. My last job was as a tech lead. I know what it fee