Developers are burning out. And it’s not because they’re working too hard.
In barely a year, artificial intelligence has invaded our offices with a brutality nobody truly anticipated. ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek… these tools have become our new reflex, our universal shortcut, our permanent validation machine.
But something is cracking. The first ones to fall aren’t confused beginners overwhelmed by technology. They are seasoned engineers, ten or fifteen years in the field, who used AI as an accelerator. Their diagnosis is unanimous: cognitive exhaustion, loss of meaning, silent burnout.
This phenomenon has a name: vibe coding. And it’s not just a developer problem.
Because what these professionals are experiencing with code today, we are already experiencing with our emails, our reports, our strategies. Zero friction is not liberation. It’s a spring-loaded trap.
95% of companies see no measurable return on their generative AI investments. We produce more. We create less value. And in the meantime, something far more precious is quietly eroding: our ability to think for ourselves.
In this article, I explore why the real question is not “how to use AI better” but something far more uncomfortable: what are we becoming while we use it?
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