--- title: A different kind of tired | daily.dev description: A developer reflects on six months of heavy AI tool usage and how it shifted the nature of their work. The mechanical difficulty of coding — framework fights,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-different-kind-of-tired-cxnlxorqm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A different kind of tired | daily.dev og:description: A developer reflects on six months of heavy AI tool usage and how it shifted the nature of their work. The mechanical difficulty of coding — framework fights,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-different-kind-of-tired-cxnlxorqm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CxNLxOrQM.png og:image:alt: A different kind of tired og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A different kind of tired **[Ruby Flow](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyflow)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer reflects on six months of heavy AI tool usage and how it shifted the nature of their work. The mechanical difficulty of coding — framework fights, debugging, edge cases — largely disappeared, replaced by harder product and UX decisions. The author describes moving from anxious oversight of AI output to trusting it for non-critical code, while still reviewing anything touching security or payments. A side effect: without the natural fatigue barrier of hard coding problems, it's now harder to know when to stop working. The author also notes a shift in how they price freelance work — billing for judgment and expertise rather than hours of typing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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