Commenters emphasize personal coping strategies and work-style fit
3 Oct 30 5:51 AM · 13d ago · 8 comments · 1 source · development 3 of 3
Several voices emphasized that overload depends on work style and boundary-setting. yulaow reported deliberately using short AI interactions and reviewing each function individually, retaining codebase knowledge and receiving few review comments. apt-apt-apt-apt described discovering that non-coding managerial work—decisions and task management—was equally exhausting. xandrius offered a broader framing: the stressor is anti-AI sentiment and discourse, not AI itself.
“I don't get tired at all from using AI. I am one of the people who enjoy building and not necessarily coding. Working is fun for me again.”
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As someone who has retired from a programming career…The AI era is, so far, not a problem. Obviously, my having retired is significant.Last night I spent an hour with Claude (free tier) setting up a "modern" 6502 build environment for MacOS. By the time I went to bed I had 1) 6502 assembly syntax highlighting in VSCode, 2) was compiling 6502…
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There are multiple strings coming together here.AI-generated code works great for me, most of the time. I'm productive, I ship, I can show stakeholders stuff in no time and and they are mostly happy.But the development sucks. I don't even really look at the code anymore, because reading generated code is a drag. And there is no reason really to do…
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It’s the exact opposite for me. I don’t get tired at all from using AI. I am one of the people who enjoy building and not necessarily coding. A part of me is sad that I don’t write code anymore, I did have a thought yesterday when reviewing a PR, but working is fun for me again.What was making me tired was all the doom and gloom online. I stopped…
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As agents become more capable, they can take on bigger work packages without being micromanaged. My conclusion from that is: I need to elevate myself up the hierarchy and work more like an engineering director than an engineer. For a few days, I contemplated how I want to work.For me, the conclusion was: I want a spatial layout of work on a canvas…
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The turmoil is fascinating. Everyone is uncertain.I have been driven to reading a lot more theory and philosophy of late.Can't recommend my latest acquisition enough: "Computational Reflections" Cantwell Smith.The current state of affairs is stressful and at times depressing, sure. But I am very, very excited for what comes next. The insanity…
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Enforcing boundaries and saying no have gotten more important than ever, now that violation of either is automated at superhuman speeds.FWIW, there might be a silver lining in this. A lot of dysfunction in the current state of tech can (IMO) be traced back to violation of boundaries. This might lead to a cultural shift. Though, that might also…
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I had something nice going with allaboutberlin.com. It helped people and covered my bills. I spent most of my tine building helpful things.Now I'm down three quarters of my traffic and my inbox is filled with LLM-generated outreach. The work is still necessary, but it has to happen with a tiny audience and a shrinking revenue. I have to worry a…
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I'm quite energized by this.Its crazy to see how we can now do things which were not thinkable a few years back.Finally i read real progress i can see and use by myself and not constantly some crypto and blockchain stuff.While I would like to have a stable world/live and for sure AI is disruptive as hell to a lot of people and potentially to me…
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It’s a bit of a mixed bag for me. My brain thrives really well with keeping a lot of balls in the air at the same time and seeing quick progress and results, and I’ve always had a hard time finishing things because of the more “boring parts”, like writing documentation and proper tests etc. (yes I’m sorry for how it sounds)But it’s not because I…
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I tell it I am a chimp with a 3 inch brain so complexity beyond chimp scale is forbidden unless requested. And to apply theory of bounded rationality during all chimp interactions. Takes care of me like a spl circus animal.I ask it for a quick complexity thermometer reading when ever the rabbit hole is looking like it might explode.Also walking…
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Yes, I am tired; but worse, I am unhappy.I understand that a lot of people really enjoy managing teams of agents and are far more productive now. I am happy for them, I really am. Apparently they never actually enjoyed coding, they will show up in droves in these comments to tell you that what they really enjoyed was the end result.I am more…
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I am surprised of how many people here are claiming they review the results of multiple agents working on different prs at the same time constantly context switching between them.I just focus on one, I use on purpose very short interactions because I want to check every single function directly and not a whole 300lines file or 2000lines pr just at…
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Same same, it's the consequence of being "more efficient with AI" unfortunately. We've increased the amount of things we all create, but mental capacity stayed the same (because we're humans) so we have to process much more info.What helps me from time to time is "mental offloading" - I basically sit for an hour and write down everything that…
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I am fighting context switching by- spending more time upfront working with agent on intent of the change, then design, so agent does not try to work around issues in a way that I don't intend to- investing in ways in which agent can verify it's own change- giving access to as much prod telemetry, etc so it can also verify the change post-merge-…
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I am vey tired. I maintain Pinggy - my first bootstrapped startup and building Lumirank , my next one. But every day is a struggle of coping up with what is new and what 20 more competitors that corpped up yesterday are up to. Millions of lines of codes being written every day, I can not merge without knowing the overall architecture and flow. But…
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One thing you might consider, that helped me: modify your agent's personality to suit you. You may be exhausted because you're talking to someone you don't like all day. I've instructed Claude to talk to me like Confucius, because I have philosophical taste, and it makes a world of difference in terms of how I feel at the end of the day.Claude's…
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I'm not tired of work per se, but I'm definitely tired of what Internet is becoming: AI generated articles on AI generated websites, AI generated videos about AI generated products, AI generated emails inviting me to test AI generated features. AI generated movies and games coming soon. At work it's all AI generated presentations about how AI…
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yep. ive accepted it, called it a good run, put away all my fun personal projects, and started pursuing a nursing degree i can treat as a stable day jobwith code all i wanted to do was code. with a nursing at least ill want to leave it at the hospital (yes nurse ptsd is real but nurse pay is great in pnw)i think it might be good to have a job i…
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Indeed I am having the same mental overload, but I am starting to shift my mindset.I realised that everyone in my company has the same mental overload.So instead of focusing on myself, I found it easier to focus on the people I work with. What are they doing? But also scheduling, in the next meeting what will I share? Then I work backwards from…
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I finally understand how tiring and how much work it is to manage tasks and make decisions all day.I used to think that only the workers (the coders, burger makers) did all the hard work, while the managers and up basically sat on their butts and relaxed. But decisions and managing even without coding is just as exhausting.
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Yes it's like I'm being chased by a ghost telling me I need to be more productive. And if I don't use my weekly limit to at least 90% I'm just wasting money and tokens. Should I just burn tokens endlessly? Is that a goal in itself? Where is the vision? Ami really building something worthwhile?
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Not personally. What I am tired of is the internet's current approach of treating every discussion with pure outrage without considering any nuance.It's completely destroying genuine conversations about the pros and cons of AI when people will just forever parrot that everything is slop
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Refreshing take, what's bad of this AI period is all the anti-AI stuff around it.Otherwise I've never been less stressed and chill in my working life.I'm not sure if you could share the window manager but I'd love to get a glimpse of it, as it sounds interesting!
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Some days I get far more done than my capacity and end up in an addicted state where I just can't stop working, and some days I don't even want to look at an AI chat window.. I also don't really get the feeling that I'm working.
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