This Reddit thread is hitting 1,000+ developers right in the anxiety. A frontend engineer with a year of experience downloaded Cursor, got massive productivity gains, and now feels like they're "becoming an idiot." The line that's haunting people: "I can design an entire system using a concept I only kind of understand. If I switch to a normal editor or explain it to a coworker, I can't do it at the depth I should." Here's what's actually happening... The tools that autocomplete your code don't make you think through what you're building. They fill the silence with their best guess. You get the dopamine hit of seeing code appear, but you never had to hold the full picture in your head. That's not the tool's fault. That's what it was designed to do. BrainGrid works differently. It doesn't write code for you. It makes you answer the questions most people skip: What happens when a user does X? What's the edge case you're not seeing? What does done actually mean? You're forced to think through the architecture, the requirements, the constraints before anything gets built. By the time you hand that structure to your coding agent, you understand exactly what's being built and why. The developers who feel dumber after using AI are the ones who skipped the thinking part and went straight to the building part. BrainGrid puts the thinking part back in, and that's the part that makes you better. Try it free at https://t.co/uJPWvrpDxZ

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"Build me Perplexity Finance but for Pokemon cards. Make no mistakes." Computer: → researched Pokemon card APIs on its own → wrote 5,000 lines of React + Python → debugged itself using browser devtools → deployed and pushed to GitHub (built by u/NoSquirrel4840 on Reddit) https://t.co/kLBQnyA2Vk

He’s not kidding. Took me HALF AN HOUR to vibe code Notion with Perplexity Computer. Software is legit a zero. https://t.co/eBbIDQsNRI

monitoring my perplexity computer https://t.co/TDfC2jXr2D

I built my own sector rotation dashboard using Perplexity Computer. The Rotation Graph tells me what sectors are leading and leading at any given moment. For good measure, I added a trend leaders section, which helps me identify sector leaders in every major sector. Not too shabby for someone with 0 coding experience. 😂

deploying 10 computer prompts to monitor the war situation https://t.co/qzJlB3OHfW

deploying 10 computer prompts to monitor the war situation https://t.co/qzJlB3OHfW

GPT‑5.3‑Codex now available as a coding subagent on Perplexity Computer. https://t.co/7e7t8km7OB

People are already using Computer to solo-run their own D2C and consulting businesses. As the tech gets better, they'll be able to scale faster and do less work. The most valuable skills will be 1) agency and 2) ability to utilize AI to get more leverage. https://t.co/AOp1HVeeX8

Ok, this is insane...🤯 I've just built the most comprehensive RAG system (UX Knowledge base) for me to use in my projects with @perplexity_ai . > Instant, research-backed best practices (548 items) for design > 10X the output quality for Project Aristotle with a grounded knowledge layer: https://t.co/ko1oELOvaA > Ability to present design decisions to stakeholders with cited rationale and data. Data is the new oil. Already shared it with those who pre-purchased @AgenticUi in January as a token of appreciation for support.

Very rarely do I say this: Perplexity Computer is insane. I just automated ~80% of the work I normally do while promoting @OpenMercato . Research. Positioning angles. Competitive scans. Content drafts. Iterations. If you’re in marketing and you’re not experimenting with this kind of tooling, you’re playing last year’s game.

🚨 Global tensions rise sharply - how will the markets and oil move? There’s too many data points and news to stay in front of, so a friend used Perplexity Computer to track everything, from geo conflicts to Polymarket, stock, and even oil prices. It’s able to extract from news and stock APIs…incredible. Geopolitics connected with actionable market insight. AI agents are becoming serious investing tools and this feels like the future 👏

what will you get done today ? https://t.co/UBkqdtUxkF

The author, @Ada_Palmer, is a historian at the University of Chicago who write "hard social science fiction" -- a category that would be useful to expand. She also had some very early thoughtful takes on AI, including this interesting piece from 2023: https://t.co/NsGvzniDD7 https://t.co/9fsbw5lzoc

ethan never got a real answer to his question and it shows https://t.co/DT5OJc7kOW

ethan never got a real answer to his question and it shows https://t.co/DT5OJc7kOW

If you ever want to see a really interesting AI thinking trace, push it really hard on literature or poetry suggestions. Here is Claude 4.6 Opus working through poetry when I asked it to find something that captures the feeling of AI while avoiding its usual favorites (eg Rilke) https://t.co/B0phEv3qIN

95% of cancer drugs that work in mice fail in humans. We’ve spent 50 years testing drugs on the wrong species. It’s time to talk about this. 🧵 https://t.co/MKp9akwBQJ

I used to marvel at new tech and now I'm just over it. This encapsulates how I feel about any new app or tech device these days. https://t.co/LIB7tGn6cz

Trump (in 2011): “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.” https://t.co/Y1sER7ENTO

Pretty crazy when you realize just how flagrant the scaremongering has been about data center water usage: https://t.co/U7rFRgKPko

@newrepublic @Prof_Sugon_Deez https://t.co/KTMPjgMkp1

@newrepublic @Prof_Sugon_Deez https://t.co/KTMPjgMkp1