To the Programmer Quietly Drowning in AI Anxiety

A quiet word for those who feel like they’re falling behind Let me guess how your morning went. You opened your phone, scrolled through some tech feed: Twitter, Hacker News, Reddit, whatever your poison is, and within thirty seconds, you saw someone claim they built an entire SaaS product over the weekend using nothing but prompts and vibes. Then you saw a thread about a new model that makes the one you just learned obsolete. Then a CEO somewhere declared that software engineers have maybe five good years left. You put your phone down. You picked up your coffee. And somewhere between the first sip and the second, a familiar knot tightened in your chest. Am I falling behind? Should I be doing more? Is everything I've built going to be worthless? Yeah. I know that feeling. I want to talk about it. The Treadmill That Never Stops The pace right now is genuinely absurd. It’s not just fast, it’s disorienting . Last month’s breakthrough is this month’s footnote. You barely finish a tutorial o