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AI Zen Sickness: When AI Outthinks Your Ego

10 April 2026 · 54 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 133 blog views

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AI just quietly took your seat. The one where you felt like the thinker.

I found a great article that talks about AI Zen.

Before the Anthropic Opus 4.6 release, AI felt like a better Google. Now it feels like… a better version of you?!

faster. clearer. more complete.

After spending real time building with AI, you start noticing something uncomfortable: it’s not just helping you think - it’s outthinking you.

What if the thing that made me valuable… isn’t special anymore?

The author compares this to Zen Buddhism - specifically "Zen sickness".

When your sense of self breaks a bit after a big realization... kind of disorienting. That’s exactly how this feels.

What helps? Definitely not fighting it - adjust to it. I catch myself repeating this to other developers all the time.

spend more time with AI stop clinging to your old identity don’t turn your brain off - just stop defending it get out of your own way

The future is less predictable now. What matters shifts:

less ego more adaptability more flow

Not "be smarter than AI" but learn how to move with it.

Feels like we’re not just using new tools. We’re becoming… slightly different people.

Source: nfx.com/post/ai-zen

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