The First 40 Months of the AI Era: Practitioner's Honest Assessment Hits 190 Points — 'Genuinely Unsure How Much AI Helps'
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A practitioner reflection on 40 months since ChatGPT's launch reached 190 points and 112 comments on HN. The author describes initial coding enthusiasm that faded when AI-generated code required replacement, found Claude Code 'more productive' but 'felt like struggling to keep it from losing the plot,' and coined 'glazing' — where AI's confidence-boosting effect drives action independent of actual utility. Zero AI-generated content on their site because AI prose is 'boring.'