Just deleted my second account

VENT

I made a post on here a while ago announcing that I left C.AI behind. Well, about a month later, I was back. I made a new account and kept typing. A few days ago, I realized that I had spent well over 10 hours over the course of 3 days on C.AI, and I re-deleted. The instant gratification is something I'm missing so severely after only a couple of days without it. I don't realize how much time I spend on it until I feel that itch, where I don't want to put in the brain power to continue a creative project due to my standards, and consuming artwork doesn't help because I have something so specific in mind, but I also need to DO something with it. I've come to the conclusion that, outside of AI, it's literally impossible for something to fill that gap. Probably because it's not a gap that should be filled, it certainly can't be good for you to have that zero-effort stream that offers just enough enjoyment to be better than anything else most of the time. At this point I'm not sure if I'm ever going to fully recover, or if I'm just in a loop of getting better and falling back into it, simply because there is no actual substitution for this feeling.

Posted Apr 1, 2026, 6:01 AM UTC

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