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I quit AI for 7 days.

I quit AI for 7 days. No ChatGPT. No Claude. No Copilot. No AI for coding, studying, writing, research, or brainstorming. And honestly? The hardest part wasn’t solving problems. It was realizing how quickly I had become uncomfortable with solving them myself. On Day 1, I kept reaching for AI whenever I got stuck. By Day 3, something changed. Instead of asking: “What's wrong with this code?” I started asking: “What do I THINK is wrong?” That tiny difference made me slow down, form hypotheses, read documentation, make mistakes, and actually remember what I learned. The biggest lesson? AI wasn’t the problem. My dependency on instant answers was. I came out of those 7 days not wanting to use AI less… I wanted to use it better. Because the goal isn't to stop using AI. The goal is to make sure you can still think when the AI isn't there. I wrote about the full 7-day experiment here: https://medium.com/@hasheramin/i-quit-ai-tools-for-7-days-heres-what-happened-cae2bbf3f3fb?sharedUserId=hasheramin Now I'm curious: If every AI tool disappeared tomorrow, how much of your work could you still do on your own ??? AI ArtificialIntelligence SoftwareEngineering Programming Learning Productivity Developer Technology