I’m cutting my AI usage from 95% to 40%. Am I going in the wrong direction? I have been using AI tools since their early beta versions and subscribed to the premium plans as soon as they launched. In the beginning, writing code and building projects with AI felt like pure magic. I started relying on it heavily. At one point, I was using AI for around 95% of my work and neglecting my own coding skills because I assumed AI was better and could handle almost everything. As I started working on more projects, I began running into problems that made me question the code AI was producing. I went back and reviewed the AI-generated code more carefully. That’s when I realized how wrong I was. A few months ago, I was using AI for around 95% of my work. Now it is closer to 60%, and I plan to bring it down to 40% or less by the end of the year. I am not trying to stop using AI. I want to use it for boilerplate, repetitive tasks, and getting a starting point. But I do not want it driving the core development of a project. After building projects myself for years, one thing is clear to me: if you are putting serious time and money into your digital presence, you cannot blindly rely on AI. It can get something working quickly. But when you properly review the code, you can find serious problems with security, logic, maintainability, and long-term stability. AI is still a useful tool. I just do not want using AI to make me worse at coding.