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Re: No AI Fridays

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post #2

I made the site to convince my boss to let me not use AI on Fridays. Hoping to get some noise around it to make him believe it's real.

I hope your boss listens! :)

Giving yourself time to be idle and let a problem marinate is often where the breakthroughs and good ideas come from. If taste and human judgment are what separate useful AI output from slop, we need to give our brains time to cook instead of constantly bouncing between agents.

Re: No AI Fridays

#22
My old workplace did the opposite: we had All AI Fridays where you had carte blanche to build out AI tooling or just work on AI stuff as long as it's vaguely related to your job.

Re: No AI Fridays

#23
"Not too much AI" or "Just enough AI" also, if you feel the need for a No AI Friday it could mean you also need to just use less AI, or try to only use it for the correct things so you don't lose visibility, for example don't let it make decisions for you, have it present the decisions.

Re: No AI Fridays

#25
I’m not going to go that far (you do you), but reading the source code seems like a great way to remain in touch with the implementation. On my hobby project, I do a lot of reading code, asking the AI pointed questions about how things work, and asking it to clean up messes.

Re: No AI Fridays

#26
post #7

We need No AI Hours everyday. We need this kind of time every day to clear our minds, reflect on what AI has brought us, and consider whether it's necessary to address the issue of technical debt.

I let Claude's 5 hour limits do this for me.

I propose 1 session per day and 3 hours to ingest the slurry into your brain

Re: No AI Fridays

#27
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upvoting for visibility, not because I agree. This is really disingenuous, and quite a bad idea overall. I’d make a joke about there not being a word for the reverse of plagiarism, except there is one: lying.

Have you read the page? I'm the COE of HTMX. I'm the boss.

So is everybody, apparently. https://x.com/htmx_org/status/1726986945430233323

Re: No AI Fridays

#28
This will be the pattern only the "privileged" workers will be able to afford.

Not using AI is similar to giving employees 20% of their time for any non-sprint work.

This privilege of No AI usage a day will lower the productivity, and rarely any companies will allow it (if they track your usage, which I am sure they do)

Re: No AI Fridays

#29
Sounds good. They're encouraging others to join in but it'd be great to hear if this actually has an impact so far and how its worked out for HTMX. I imagine there are some interesting anecdotes about what actually happens when teams do this.

[Edit] just seen that OP is pitching this rather than practicing it. I wonder if any team actually do have a practice like this...

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