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Re: Task Paralysis and AI

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Post by simgt »

bah9 wrote: post #106

AI basically killed my joy for programming. I've been working as swe in bigtech for 8 years. I like learning stuff, actually coding stuff with my hands, gather information and understanding before implementing, polish my code. Thats all gone Now I am just a monkey thats: 1) add enough context, description and harness to an agent 2) review ouput and repeat 1) if context is lacking It was bottom to top: from understand…

I'm in the same boat, weirdly I can't find colleagues or friends who share my point of view. It's always the same "I can do higher level thinking now" or "no it can't do X". You nailed it with the output having no value anymore.

I find some solace in electronics repair, sadly there isn't much money to make in that.

Re: Task Paralysis and AI

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Post by Weryj »

mettamage wrote: post #124
Weryj wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought about it a little deeper and I think software development has always had the addictive tendency. That hunt for the solution to the problem, has a rush when you complete it. It’s just that the rush is more frequent, addiction intensity scales with dose and frequency.

Don't know man. I'm also neurodivergent, subclinical in many ways at least on many things (I use science and self-development to keep myself remarkably stable for my neurotype). My issue with programming has always been that it feels so lonely and you get to care about things that no one else seems to really care about. So it removes one further from the general public. I feel with AI agents, the pendulum shifted bac…

I was generalising a bit, but in a way where only a subset would agree. It's all anecdotal and very personal.

Re: Task Paralysis and AI

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Post by bah9 »

simgt wrote: post #131
bah9 wrote: post #106

AI basically killed my joy for programming. I've been working as swe in bigtech for 8 years. I like learning stuff, actually coding stuff with my hands, gather information and understanding before implementing, polish my code. Thats all gone Now I am just a monkey thats: 1) add enough context, description and harness to an agent 2) review ouput and repeat 1) if context is lacking It was bottom to top: from understand…

I'm in the same boat, weirdly I can't find colleagues or friends who share my point of view. It's always the same "I can do higher level thinking now" or "no it can't do X". You nailed it with the output having no value anymore. I find some solace in electronics repair, sadly there isn't much money to make in that.

Ahh, famous "thinking", also known as "write couple more prompts, answer llms questions and combine results". Pretty exciting

Re: Task Paralysis and AI

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Post by Weryj »

iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #129
Weryj wrote: post #3

I could have written this article myself. The addiction part, the ADHD part and the pending test part. The fear of becoming addicted to AI is real and I don't think I'll be capable to stop it, considering we're asking people who struggle with avoiding quick dopamine to use it professionally in their daily work life. My Pro went to Max(5) to Max(20) pretty quickly and I was burning through that weekly limit still, wit…

You got me curious, mostly because I did not evolve past one terminal for whatever reason. Can anyone tell me how that happens? Can you realistically keep track of much? Or is it really a move to management as one of the other poster's noted?

My monolith is large enough to work on multiple systems in parallel without overlapping. One prompt with Opus might take 30-40 minutes once past the planning phase.

So I plan the next work, while the current is still running and if that's a task that can't have parallel work, I have a bunch of time to keep planning the next steps for other systems.

And then there's time for reading through the changes and applying corrective changes to the code or the meta-skills.

I use CMUX and setup workspaces for each topic I'm working on, each workspace has number of tabs. That helps keeping track of everything I'm working on, but also means no topic gets left behind until I close the workspace. So they accumulate

Re: Task Paralysis and AI

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Post by glouwbug »

daveguy wrote: post #89
stavros wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That sounds like a process problem. LLMs, like any tool, work better if you don't use them in the naive "do this" way. This works well for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083267

> The gambling trope is so tired... >>> That sounds like a process problem. LLMs, like any tool, work better if you don't use them in the naive "do this" way... The "you're holding it wrong" trope is even more tired than the gambling trope.

Classic no Scotsman

Re: Task Paralysis and AI

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Post by butlike »

Weryj wrote: post #3

I could have written this article myself. The addiction part, the ADHD part and the pending test part. The fear of becoming addicted to AI is real and I don't think I'll be capable to stop it, considering we're asking people who struggle with avoiding quick dopamine to use it professionally in their daily work life. My Pro went to Max(5) to Max(20) pretty quickly and I was burning through that weekly limit still, wit…

Just follow the old drug using paradigm: "only get high on Friday." Only prompt on Friday

Re: Task Paralysis and AI

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Post by qingcharles »

bah9 wrote: post #106

AI basically killed my joy for programming. I've been working as swe in bigtech for 8 years. I like learning stuff, actually coding stuff with my hands, gather information and understanding before implementing, polish my code. Thats all gone Now I am just a monkey thats: 1) add enough context, description and harness to an agent 2) review ouput and repeat 1) if context is lacking It was bottom to top: from understand…

I'm the opposite. I've been coding for over 40 years, over 30 professionally, full-time. I've never enjoyed coding more than I do now with an LLM assistant. I'm getting more done, at a higher quality, faster. I get to talk through complex algorithms and strategy decisions quickly and insightfully. I couldn't be more thankful for these tools. That being said, we have a choice, and if people don't like AI, they don't need to use it.
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