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If considering what's called "Deep work" only. Then 3-4 hours max. Otherwise, whole day.
AI has definitely helped me save my time debugging issues. Otherwise, there has been no increase in pressure. Rather, I have stopped preparing hard for interviews.
If I have other busywork I do as much as necessary, if not doomscrolling or read literature.
I am in compiler development, and aim to do 1-2 hours of intellectually stimulating work everyday. If I have other busywork I do as much as necessary, if not doomscrolling or read literature.
A friend of mine working as a deep learning engineer at one of the big tech companies is working her ass off due to fear of layoffs. She mentioned that their manager takes quiz! from them and gives them performance tests. The vibe is incredibly tense and except a few who are working on secret projects, the rest are left hanging in a looming lay-off round. Every day she works till late at nights or awake 5am to contin…
I always get suspicious of mass layoffs -- I always think they are not connected to performance but to networking and marketing of your work.
37 hrs/week, of which 3/day might be solid work, the rest is eye rolling and facepalming about things like salesforce, oracle and similar horror straight from hell.
Not affected by layoffs, working for a company that is a moat, that virtually prints money.
AI saves me time as a context-heavy stackoverflow at hand, with high signal to noise ratio. It won't replace me any time soon. Excited for AGI though, I could use intelligent colleagues.
It varies. Some days 4 hours, other days are 12 hours.
I work 30 hour weeks at my day job, works out to 6 hours a day with change. Then I spend anywhere between 0 and 10 hours more working on my personal projects.
The positive side is that my health issues forces me to delegate and not get involved in day-to-day operations too much (which I previously did). Now I can easily work 1-2 hours a day at max and still keep the company humming along. Most work is on how to design the business long term for success and often not directly involved with clients.
AI helps immensely to quickly get things out of the way and only focus on essential things. Many mundane tasks can be done using AI now and it really is a game changer and makes it easier to take on more complex tasks as a business owner.