AI: The new sugar and the doom of mindkind
Published on April 25th, 2025 By zooboole
The AI wind is currently blowing at its highest speed. It's adopted everywhere and by everyone nowadays. I can hear bosses suggest that employees use ChatGPT for the job. Many are buying premium chatGPT for their teams. So many faceless YouTube channels are born from AI to overload us with more information. They represent the new sources of information we cannot deny, both artistic and magnificence of machines. In short, the impact of AI on us cannot be denied. The sweetness of it is becoming a danger for us. Let me explain.
I’m Ahmed, a programmer and writer who started blogging in 2015 and coding in 2002. I have at this point tasted various key moments of the evolution of the Internet both as a writing and as a software developer. And the current season is similar to the Internet revolution in the 80s but on steroids — AI.
I do remember that to write an article then, you had to get the idea in place. Perform some analysis of the relevance. Then, conduct some research here and there before writing your first draft. Then, we would go on to review it. Use the Hemingway app to check against plagiarism, grammar, vocabulary, errors, etc. Then, it will grade your article. You could go on to use Grammarly, the one before AI, to structure your sentences better. This process would be even tougher for more serious authors and publications houses. Note that it could also take days to get an article ready worth publishing.
But now, the urge to use an AI app to get it done in the blink of an eye is tempting. Personally, my resistance to it is mediocre. This has become my habit recently. I would use AI to write or to code. For administrative documents, it's OK because I did not have any good skills writing them. But to code, it became some kind of pair-coding with AI. As time goes on, it has become super difficult for me to start a project without involving AI.
One day, I couldn’t understand my own code. I had to stop. Breathe. And realize what was happening
You might know that it's hard to submit complete and complex software files to AI at once. So, they tend to lose the logic over time and leave you to yourself. It might have suggested some design patterns or architecture that you may not have been familiar with and you get locked. AI can become a bottleneck, keeping you stuck for hours or days as you go back and forth trying to explain the issue and understand the solution you actually need. But then you realize that it has lost the logic and flow of the ideas you are discussing, leaving you alone.
You get lost in the project with no clear understanding of the architecture and the code base itself. You might have already noticed that your resistance to stress has decreased, making you feel lazier than before. It has become like a numbing tool that dumbs us down. It's a sweet tool that can become a sickness. As time goes on, mankind will find it difficult to use its full brain capacity to think or reason. I do understand and appreciate the ease and speed we have with AI, but it's equally our problem.
The ability to sit down, focus, generate ideas, refine them, and find solutions is a powerful exercise that keeps the brain active and proactive. For generations, schools, parents, and other human institutions have worked to cultivate this ability in us. We teach our children to develop self-reliance by encouraging them to persevere and take action, even when they feel lazy or unmotivated. This endurance is being killed in us by AI.
The purists will say that I hate AI. No, I don't. I love it. But, it's too sweet. and it's matured enough to carry all our problems to make us rely on it. Yet, it's already making us lose control. It's like a dose of cocaine. We are becoming too dependent to the extent of ignoring ourselves. And now we have to fight the desire just like that of sugar.
That's what I wanted to remind us, "the mind-kind".
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