I never could code to music.
AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
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Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#222In my experience, listening to music engages the creative part of your brain and severely limits what you can do, but this is not readily apparent. If I listen to music, I can spend an hour CODING YEAH! and be all smug and satisfied, until I turn the music off and discover that everything I've coded is unnecessary and there is an easier way to achieve the same goal. I just didn't see it, because the creative part of…
Your experience suffers from confirmation bias.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#223Chill instrumental and lo-fi are your friends now. I also noticed I couldn't listen to music anymore but that's only because of vocals. Anything without language works just fine, especially at low volume.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#224I really don't get it. While letting the AI write some code can be cool and fascinating, I really can't undersand how: - write the prompt(and you need do be precise and think and express carefully what you have in mind) - check/try the code - repeat is better than writing the code by myself. AI coding like this feels like a nightmare to me and it's 100x more exhausting.
I bet some people felt the same way when we collectively moved from assembly to compilers.
In the previous scenario, programmers were still writing the code themselves. The compilers, if they were any good, generated deterministic code.
In our current scenario, programmers are merely describing what they think the code should do, and another program takes their description and then stochastically generates code based on it.
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
My cushy software job has burned me out so badly that I am on medical leave with massive memory problems and a bit of concern about my heart So I mean... Yeah Is software more comfortable generally than many other lines of work? Yes probably Is it always soft and cushy? No, not at all. It is often high pressure and high stress
FWIW, I am not your doctor: Taking a daily antioxidant, glutathione, has helped me manage memory-related symptoms that appeared coincident with other burnout symptoms. Disclaimer: talk to your doctor. I don’t know if your doctor can tell you whether this is a good idea, but it might help in some countries with good medical systems.
I might as well ask my doctor about it, thanks
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
My cushy software job has burned me out so badly that I am on medical leave with massive memory problems and a bit of concern about my heart So I mean... Yeah Is software more comfortable generally than many other lines of work? Yes probably Is it always soft and cushy? No, not at all. It is often high pressure and high stress
What kind of massive memory problems? I might have this but didn't think to attribute it to burnout.
Difficult to explain because it's inconsistent
But I am struggling to remember things I did not used to struggle with
Going to an event on a weekend with my wife and completely forgetting that we ran into a friend there. Not just "oh yeah I forgot we saw them", like feeling my wife is lying to me when she tells me we saw them. Texting them to ask and they agree we saw each other
These are people I trust with my life so I believe they would not gaslight me, my own memory has just failed
Many examples like this, just completely blacking out things. Not forgetting everything, but blacking out large pieces of my daily life. Even big things
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#227Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of massive memory problems? I might have this but didn't think to attribute it to burnout.
When I burned out I experienced skill regression and short term memory loss. Like, an inability to remember specific events of the day before, inability to perform skills I had done for decades like play an instrument. Took over a year to stabilize and return to normal.
Yes, this is extremely similar to my experience
I cannot remember events, conversations, or details about important things. I have partially lost my ability to code, because I get partway through implementing a feature and forget what pieces I've done and which pieces still need to be done
I can still write it, but the quality of my work has plummeted, which is part of why I'm off on leave now
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
I suspect the difference lies in people who think in code versus people who translate their thoughts into code I think in code and programming concepts when I am writing software . I don't really know how to explain that, but I don't often feel like there is any friction between my thoughts and the code I make I think that many coders do not have this. They have an extra "translation" step that introduces friction in…
Another datapoint of one. It's not really that I think in code. It's more like code is as much as a language to me as writing english, or holding the pencil to draw something. I got a change request, or I read something from the docs, and the the mental concept I have realign itself to the new knowledge. Getting code out is always effortless. There's no difference between return the list of names of all the books tha…
Yes, this is exactly what I mean when I say "thinking in code". I feel it isn't accurate either, but it was the best way I had to describe it
More or less just that there is little to no friction for me to think a thought and write the code compared to "translating" the thought into code
Re: AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore
#230Listen to dance music or classical without the lyrics....I've NEVER been able to code/work and listen to music with language/lyrics. Words overwhelm my mental bandwidth. Same shit happens to me with the piano. Please don't speak while I try to play.