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The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by voicedYoda »

LogicFailsMe wrote: post #3

In my side hustle time, I use coding agents to explore what if projects I would otherwise never get to build. At my day job, I use AI to fix config, container, and installation issues so I can spend my time coding instead of struggling to fix mostly other people's mistakes. And really, in this age of python wheels, containers, virtual environments, and fragmented APIs, the cognitive load of doing this by hand would s…

My biggest struggle is UI. I can make functional, but my design skills couldn't sell water to someone in death valley

Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by misiti3780 »

voicedYoda wrote: post #11
LogicFailsMe wrote: post #3

In my side hustle time, I use coding agents to explore what if projects I would otherwise never get to build. At my day job, I use AI to fix config, container, and installation issues so I can spend my time coding instead of struggling to fix mostly other people's mistakes. And really, in this age of python wheels, containers, virtual environments, and fragmented APIs, the cognitive load of doing this by hand would s…

My biggest struggle is UI. I can make functional, but my design skills couldn't sell water to someone in death valley

Pick a website you like, and tell claude to use it for inspiration. I do this all the time and the results are pretty impressive and different than what you get out of the box prompting.

Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by bigyax »

I'm actually not feeling the 'burnout', though I too have a bunch of projects sitting at various levels of vibe-completeness. Mostly one just kind of yanks on my attention a bit more than the others and so they end up getting a little neglected. I'm fine with it though, I love having all these little forever projects of mine finally coming to life. My worry is kindof the opposite, what happens when I've finished all the things. Will I run out of ideas? I hope not, but already some of my pet projects have reached a level of completeness where I just cannot see anymore to add, for me they have reached a level of done. That frees me up for the next project but what if I run out of projects!

Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by pixl97 »

bigyax wrote: post #14

I'm actually not feeling the 'burnout', though I too have a bunch of projects sitting at various levels of vibe-completeness. Mostly one just kind of yanks on my attention a bit more than the others and so they end up getting a little neglected. I'm fine with it though, I love having all these little forever projects of mine finally coming to life. My worry is kindof the opposite, what happens when I've finished all…

Get another hobby like gardening?

Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by gritspants »

bigyax wrote: post #14

I'm actually not feeling the 'burnout', though I too have a bunch of projects sitting at various levels of vibe-completeness. Mostly one just kind of yanks on my attention a bit more than the others and so they end up getting a little neglected. I'm fine with it though, I love having all these little forever projects of mine finally coming to life. My worry is kindof the opposite, what happens when I've finished all…

Then just set aside some time to be bored. People generate some of their best ideas during this time.

Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by johnvanommen »

gritspants wrote: post #16
bigyax wrote: post #14

I'm actually not feeling the 'burnout', though I too have a bunch of projects sitting at various levels of vibe-completeness. Mostly one just kind of yanks on my attention a bit more than the others and so they end up getting a little neglected. I'm fine with it though, I love having all these little forever projects of mine finally coming to life. My worry is kindof the opposite, what happens when I've finished all…

Then just set aside some time to be bored. People generate some of their best ideas during this time.

The one thing I miss about driving to work.

Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by stavros »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #6

> So logically, if AI can help us complete tasks 2-100x faster than before, we should be UNDERWORKED and experiencing ZERO burnout, right? No. you got lied to by AI bros. 100x times the code (that if you burn enough tokens that you could actually hire someone to go thru your ideas and make them...) is not 100x times the productivity

That's not the reason, the reason is that you get paid for eight hours, and that's how much you'll work, regardless of the number of tasks you complete in those hours.

Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by SubiculumCode »

jalev wrote: post #9

It's wild we're seeing people rediscover the same solution to the same problems we've had forever: being precious about your darlings. Code generators reduced the friction for implementing every shitty idea someone has ever had, but because developers seem to have never experienced throwing shitty ideas away (because if it was written in code it _has_ to be important right?) they treat everything coming out of the Co…

Funny. In writing, the advice is to "kill your darlings". Don't let a particular paragraph that you love a lot stop the whole story because it doesnt fit.

Re: The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough

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Post by vouaobrasil »

LogicFailsMe wrote: post #3

In my side hustle time, I use coding agents to explore what if projects I would otherwise never get to build. At my day job, I use AI to fix config, container, and installation issues so I can spend my time coding instead of struggling to fix mostly other people's mistakes. And really, in this age of python wheels, containers, virtual environments, and fragmented APIs, the cognitive load of doing this by hand would s…

> At my day job, I use AI to fix config, container, and installation issues so I can spend my time coding instead of struggling to fix mostly other people's mistakes. And really, in this age of python wheels, containers, virtual environments, and fragmented APIs, the cognitive load of doing this by hand would shut me down for the day.

I think it was a mistake to add this much complexity to the world of software in the first place, so I'd view AI as a bandaid to a problem rather than addressing the underyling issue. But on the whole, the cost of all this extra complexity, data centers to run AI to fix layers of crud and buildup don't seem to provide much of a net benefit to society (except to those who are at the top and need to see growth to pad their retirement portfolios).

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