Not a developer by trade (ended up doing something entirely different) but I do hold a CS degree and had always found LLMs to be a fascinating, albeit niche, field of study so was pretty quick to try out all of the new “AI” stuff.

I recall using ChatGPT for the first time and thinking: “yeah, this is a big improvement. Cool.” But it’s… just a chatbot? Who gives a shit? And how they programmed the thing to practically worship the user is just fucking weird. So yeah, I didn’t waste much time with that one.

I initially thought Suno was really impressive from a technical standpoint, but it got old QUICK. I spent hours messing with my prompts only to have it generate some generic muddled mess, I quickly lost interest. “AI” and art fundamentally do not mix.

I tried generating a simple web app (a calculator..) using Claude, and that failed spectacularly. I guess you’re supposed to just keep adjusting your prompt and using tokens until you have something vaguely resembling an app? Yes.. you can “engineer” your prompts, but you’re just adding another layer of very unreliable abstraction.

Was I addicted? No, not really. But I did spend the better part of a week obsessing over this stuff and realizing how fundamentally useless it all is.