sat down and coded without ai for the first time in months. forgot how much i missed actually thinking
just actually sitting and deciding things myself. like how do i want this structured, what pattern makes sense here, how should the dependencies flow. nobody talks about that part. the thinking before the typing. ai just skips it for you and you dont even notice its gone until you sit down alone with a blank file.
did it today for a side project. set up DI myself, thought through the architecture, wrote constructors without prompting anything. took longer obviously but it felt like actually building something instead of just reviewing code someone else wrote.
feels like a skill thats quietly disappearing and most people wont notice until its completely gone.