The Illusion of comprehension | Bossadi Zenith

How AI makes developers feel smarter without getting better.

One of the most misleading effects of modern AI tools is that they make you feel like you understand something when you don’t. You write less, you debug less, and yet you come away feeling more competent. The problem is that this confidence isn’t earned. It’s borrowed. I only noticed this recently after trying to fix a TypeScript error on Notpadd. I spent half an hour thinking through it, then gave up and pasted the message into Cursor. It produced a perfect fix on the first attempt. I accepted it, shipped it, and felt satisfied. But halfway through a walk, I realized I couldn’t explain a…

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