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Ask HN: How are you preventing brainrot?

A software engineer with six years of experience posted on Hacker News asking how peers prevent 'brainrot' from relying heavily on AI coding tools like Claude Code, noting they use it half the day to keep up with their team but feel less sharp. The post received 1 point and no comments as of publication.

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Hey there, full time software engineer of around 6 years here (post-grad). I’m using Claude Code half of the day now at work, I just can’t keep up with my team if I were to stop coding with AI. I’m more “productive” but my brain feels less sharp and am curious how others are staying sharp, I guess I just need to allocate time to learning new things again but wondering how others are dealing with this. Thanks!

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294529](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294529)

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