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Re: Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?

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Post by aunty_helen »

4-6 hours deep work a day, trending towards 4

3ish hours of buisness work a day.

Probably 2-4 hours of work related stuff and thinking about work

Meant to be doing 1+ hours of learning and reading each day.

Trying to take weekends more seriously but that depends on $ for the week. Daily consistency is a big challenge for me. Some days I can just fall off a cliff. Others it will be 10-11 logged hours.

Copilot and Chat every day while programming. Little tasks and boiler plate are taken care of. When getting very deep into developing a system, the chat needs more and more context so becomes less useful.

Re: Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?

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Post by iamsanteri »

I don’t know how many hours I work, but recently I saw that in the last week I was in front of a screen for almost 12 hours on average (per day)… And that’s with going out for lunch and sleeping. I wasn’t even working for a lot of those hours. It’s been a long cold winter here in the north. Currently I’m rapidly introducing some corrections, as I felt I was a wreck.

Re: Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?

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Post by nibbleshifter »

Depends on the day. Anywhere from 0-12.

Some days, just nothing happens. Can be spooky quiet.

> Did the layoff wave push you to work more hours than expected?

No. It is unlikely to affect me.

> Does AI save you time already?

No. It's done the opposite - I spend a lot of time either fielding questions about how we can use it (in most cases we can't, yet).

Re: Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?

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Post by rco8786 »

I don't use AI in my day to day (yet, probably) but I am bullish on it in general. I currently work ~8 hour days M-F, typical stuff.

> Did the layoff wave push you to work more hours than expected?

No. I am a top performer (not a self assessment, officially documented) so I figure I'll be the last to go.

Re: Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?

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Post by gpderetta »

PartiallyTyped wrote: post #14
fooker wrote: post #13

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.

Slightly off topic, but how may I get into your field?

doomscrolling is a competitive environment; HN is a decent start so you are already at a good starting point, although you might want to level-up to FB, or even TikTok for more advanced skills.

Re: Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?

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Post by dzek69 »

AI only wasted my time. It cannot really solve anything beyond basic StackOverflow questions and it even fails on super simple questions too. So I wasted hours to discover the fact.

I work as long as I want in theory, but I try to work 8hr/day, which is expected from me, but of course at least 2hr/day is spent on meetings. Sometimes I don't "work" at all (I mean coding), usually I get around 2-4h to think and code.

I'm not worried about layoffs, while I usually don't believe in myself I feel I still have a strong skills that are needed on the market and the worst that can happen is a little smaller salary in another company.

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