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imiricyesterday at 8:42 AM0 repliesview on HN

I can't tell if your general premise is serious or not, but in case it is: I get zero dopamine hits from using these tools.

My dopamine rush comes from solving a problem, learning something new, producing a particularly elegant and performant piece of code, etc. There's an aspect of hubris involved, to be sure.

Using a tool to produce the end result gives me no such satisfaction. It's akin to outsourcing my work to someone who can do it faster than me. If anything, I get cortisol hits when the tool doesn't follow my directions and produces garbage output, which I have to troubleshoot and fix myself.