AI Makes Sitting With Discomfort Feel Shameful

This article explores the author's personal struggle with the pressure AI creates to prioritize speed and productivity over deep, thoughtful learning. The author describes how traditional practices like reading documentation, refactoring code, and sitting with discomfort during technical exploration now feel shameful due to AI's emphasis on 100x productivity and agent-based workflows. The piece critiques the cultural shift that devalues meditative, hands-on learning in favor of prompt-driven efficiency, using the example of writing a blog post about MySQL row-locking in ColdFusion. It raises questions about relevance, joy, and the loss of craftsmanship in the age of AI.