Fading authenticity📉
Bhoomerr-the vibe coder😎
When Cursor announced their student pack, I reacted like the world was ending tomorrow. I didn’t even think twice—I grabbed a friend’s email, activated the perks like a crazy(even though I had a bad impression on it before) and dived straight into a sea of auto-suggestions and instant refactors. It felt like it's the best way possible to code. I was vibe-coding—bouncing between tabs, jumping on files, tweaking functions and whatnot. It felt like I was unstoppable. So I did what any rational person would do: tried to melt the servers.
But something hit me. A weird déjà vu. The code I was getting didn’t just feel familiar— it was familiar. It was silently deciding tech stacks. I’d ask for help building a feature and boom—React, Express, MongoDB. Every. Single. Time. No context, no nuance. Like I’d seen it in the last vibe-coded project.
The vibe was off by now! That’s when I realized something important: AI wasn’t giving me the best code. It was giving me the most common code.
The trap!🕸️
Most of these AI tools—whether it’s Cursor, Copilot, or ChatGPT—are trained on giant datasets scraped from GitHub. And while that gives them power, it also gives them a kind of inherited laziness. They learn from code that’s unreviewed, older versioned... It’s a subtle trap: the more we rely on AI to write code, the more we're reinforcing the same outdated or mediocre practices. It wasn’t helping me grow—it was helping me ship. And there’s a big difference between the two.
I realized how easily AI can flatten our creativity. The more suggestions I accepted, the less I was thinking. My job started to feel more like curating than creating. And for developers—especially those still learning—that’s a dangerous shift. The struggle is the point. That late-night bug hunt? That weird API edge case? That’s where growth happens. And sometimes, these AI shortcuts rob the learning part you actually need.
There’s also this strange loop forming:
AI writes code → devs accept it → upload it → AI trains on it → repeat. Authenticity & Creativity == DEAD
We’re feeding the machine with its own output, like echoing into a tunnel that slowly distorts your voice. As more developers start adopting AI generated codes, originality takes the back seat.
So are we into destruction mode?💀
No, not at all. I love AI tools. I still use them every day. And let’s be real,it’s not AI’s fault. It’s doing exactly what it was designed to do: predict the next token, based on what it has seen. But now, I treat them like smart interns: useful, but not trustworthy on their own. I check everything. Because if I don’t, I’m not coding=>I’m just copy-pasting. The real recipe is about balancing it.
So here’s my take: Never stop writing raw, unassisted, pure code. That’s where real progress is and will ever be. This is a wake-up call. We’re in the middle of a shift where code is being commodified, templated, and suggested at scale. So now, more than ever, originality, intent, and craftsmanship matter. Because without them, we’re just noise-generators with keyboards.
The next time you fire up Copilot or Cursor, go ahead and melt the servers. Just make sure you're still the one flying the plane.
"Machines excel at computation, but humans excel at creativity. That’s where we must focus."
— Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
— B.F. Skinner
P.S: Great quote, Skinner but a little gender-inclusive language wouldn't have hurt :)