Why Building with AI feels less exciting than it should

Many of the things we dreamed of building for years are finally within reach, yet for many engineers the feeling is not excitement. It is almost the opposite. This is a look at why that happens, and why the moment magic becomes infrastructure is exactly where the most interesting problems live.

You can now build a chatbot, recommendation engine, or research assistant in a fraction of the time it once took. The technology is objectively more powerful, the barrier to entry is lower, and yet for many core engineers it feels less rewarding. Part of the answer is how humans absorb miracles into everyday life. The other part is where the difficult problems actually went.