The Cursor Blinked at Me This Morning

The cursor blinked at me this morning and I realized something horrifying: I'm still typing code character by character like it's 1985. We've been gaslit into believing that Copilot and Claude in the sidebar represent "AI-assisted development." They don't. They're digital wheelchairs for a paradigm that's already dead. Here's the uncomfortable truth nobody selling you $20/month coding subscriptions wants to admit: manual coding is becoming a liability, not a skill. The Illusion of Assistance Current AI tools are trapped in a UX designed for humans who write syntax. You prompt, wait, review, paste, debug. It's a slightly faster version of Stack Overflow copy-pasting with better autocomplete. Meanwhile, the actual work of software engineering—architecting systems, understanding constraints, validating assumptions—has been outsourced to your biological neural network while the AI plays typist. We've created a bizarre hybrid where the human does the hard thinking and the machine does the m