Re:How I Fight AI Brain Fry
by bicepjai on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @01:21PM
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I went through a similar phase; "LLM coding psychosis" is a fair name for it. For about 2 months, I went to bed angry most nights, trying to finish a project that would have taken me longer by hand. Git fight was most of it, end of day trying to commit before bed and it messes it up so bad you just get so angry. I do feel accomplished, but I took a loss getting there.
My guess is this mostly affects people who care about code quality. If all you want is the final product, like the demos Anthropic shows of agents building an OS, and you never read the code, you seem to come out happy; I have the same feeling until I see the code.
I've stopped letting AI make large changes. Now I review small ones, and I abstract concepts in the code as hard as I can for my own sanity. I have the largest section in Claude.md for git workflows and have proper rules for branches in GitHub which I used to not care about before.
My guess is this mostly affects people who care about code quality. If all you want is the final product, like the demos Anthropic shows of agents building an OS, and you never read the code, you seem to come out happy; I have the same feeling until I see the code.
I've stopped letting AI make large changes. Now I review small ones, and I abstract concepts in the code as hard as I can for my own sanity. I have the largest section in Claude.md for git workflows and have proper rules for branches in GitHub which I used to not care about before.