you are the problem. this "article" is ai slop.
AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
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Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
#232For me the fatigue is a little different— it’s the constant switching between doing a little bit of work/coding/reviewing and then stopping to wait for the llm to generate something. The waits are unpredictable length, so you never know if you should wait or switch to a new task. So you just do something to kill a little time while the machine thinks. You never get into a flow state and you feel worn down from this c…
I know this is a terribly irresponsible and immature suggestion, but what I've been doing is every time I give claude code a request of indeterminate length, I just hit a blunt and chill out. That and sometimes I'll tab into the kind of game that can be picked up and put down on very short notice, here's where I shameless plug for the free and open source game Endless Sky. For me personally, programming lost most of…
That's precisely how I refactored dank-extract from dank-mcp and finally got dank-data to archive CT canna-data every Sunday at 4:20pm Pacific.
Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know this is a terribly irresponsible and immature suggestion, but what I've been doing is every time I give claude code a request of indeterminate length, I just hit a blunt and chill out. That and sometimes I'll tab into the kind of game that can be picked up and put down on very short notice, here's where I shameless plug for the free and open source game Endless Sky. For me personally, programming lost most of…
Except there is a well-known phenomenon among programmers that commencing to work requires more energy than working itself (*). Every time you chill out and come back to work, you will have to invest that extra bit of start-up energy. Which can be draining. (* probably has to do with reloading your working memory)
While this is certainly very true, I find coding through an LLM to require far less effort dedicated to this cognitive switching than does writing in some programming language, primarily because I no longer have to load the mental context for converting my high level human instructions to code that a programming environment actually supports. The mental context seems more lightweight and closer to the way I think about the problem when I'm not sitting at the computer actively working on it. If an idea comes to me while I'm away from the computer I can momentarily sit down, type in whatever I just thought of, and get going almost immediately. I think it also saves a huge amount of cognitive load and stress (for me) involved with switching around between different programs and languages, an unfortunate fact of life when dealing with legacy systems.
Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
#234More AI Inevitablism Soothsaying.[1]
> I shipped more code last quarter than any quarter in my career. I also felt more drained than any quarter in my career. These two facts are not unrelated.
I’m gonna be generous (and try not to be pedantic) and assume that more-code means more bugfixes and features (and whatnot) and not more LOC.
Your manager has mandated X tokens a day or you feel you have to use it to keep up. Huh?
> I build AI agent infrastructure for a living. I'm one of the core maintainers of OpenFGA (CNCF Incubating), I built agentic-authz for agent authorization, I built Distill for context deduplication, I shipped MCP servers. I'm not someone who dabbles with AI on the side. I'm deep in it. I build the tools that other engineers use to make AI agents work in production.
Oh.
> If you're an engineer who uses AI daily - for design reviews, code generation, debugging, documentation, architecture decisions - and you've noticed that you're somehow more tired than before AI existed, this post is for you. You're not imagining it. You're not weak. You're experiencing something real that the industry is aggressively pretending doesn't exist. And if someone who builds agent infrastructure full-time can burn out on AI, it can happen to anyone.
This is what ChatGPT writes to me when I ask “but why is that the case”.
1. No, you are not wrong
2. You don’t have
3. You are experiencing something real
> I want to talk about it honestly. Not the "AI is amazing and here's my workflow" version. The real version.
And it will be unfiltered. Raw. And we will conclude with how to go on with our Flintstone Engineering[2] but with some platitudes about self-care.
> The real skill ... It's knowing when to stop.
Stop prompting? Like, for
> Knowing when the AI output is good enough.
Ah. We do short prompting sessions instead.
> Knowing that your brain is a finite resource and that protecting it is not laziness - it's engineering.
Indeed it’s not this thing. It’s that—thing.
> AI is the most powerful tool I've ever used. It's also the most draining. Both things are true. The engineers who thrive in this era won't be the ones who use AI the most. They'll be the ones who use it the most wisely.
Of course we will keep using “the most powerful tool I’ve ever used”. But we will do it wisely.
What’s to worry about? You can use ChatGPT as your therapist now.
Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
#235AI cope regarging "you can still carefully design, AI wont take away your creative control or care for the craft" is the new "there's no problem with C's safety and design, devs just need to pay more attention while coding" or the "I'm not alcoholic, I can quit anytime" of 2026...
Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know this is a terribly irresponsible and immature suggestion, but what I've been doing is every time I give claude code a request of indeterminate length, I just hit a blunt and chill out. That and sometimes I'll tab into the kind of game that can be picked up and put down on very short notice, here's where I shameless plug for the free and open source game Endless Sky. For me personally, programming lost most of…
yeah that's how I do it too but careful with the blunt, yesterday I was working away, had some time while an agent swarm ran, took a "little break" and now ghostty looks like this: https://s.h4x.club/kpuGgD12 :|
I feel like we used to do so much more customization and theming of our desktop environments in the 2000s/2010s. I miss it, and therefore love this for you!
Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know this is a terribly irresponsible and immature suggestion, but what I've been doing is every time I give claude code a request of indeterminate length, I just hit a blunt and chill out. That and sometimes I'll tab into the kind of game that can be picked up and put down on very short notice, here's where I shameless plug for the free and open source game Endless Sky. For me personally, programming lost most of…
Wow, this is a new low I did not expect to see. "Just get high and you'll be able to code with an LLM." Preceded by, "I know it's terrible." I'm wholly unwilling to relinquish my health and my morals to "AI" so I can "ship faster." What a pathetic existence that would be.
Welcome to Taylorism. Not just for assembly line workers anymore.
Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
#238“You’re not imagining it. You’re not weak.”
If “I get exhausted that I have to check in on my coding agent while it does my job” isn’t weak, what is? This has to be satire.
Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know this is a terribly irresponsible and immature suggestion, but what I've been doing is every time I give claude code a request of indeterminate length, I just hit a blunt and chill out. That and sometimes I'll tab into the kind of game that can be picked up and put down on very short notice, here's where I shameless plug for the free and open source game Endless Sky. For me personally, programming lost most of…
Wow, this is a new low I did not expect to see. "Just get high and you'll be able to code with an LLM." Preceded by, "I know it's terrible." I'm wholly unwilling to relinquish my health and my morals to "AI" so I can "ship faster." What a pathetic existence that would be.
One of the best programmers I know personally is constantly under the influence of marijuana. As "immature" as it may sound, she's still extremely aware of what she's doing and is able to work in an environment I would give up in after 2 weeks. The kind of environment that denies 1 day PTO for your birthday because of a deadline (hint, every week is a deadline).
I do not smoke myself, but it made me realize how little I know regarding THC and CBD
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s vibe coding while high. Probably terrible for assesing the results from Claude
The code works quite well, but I wouldn't inflict it on other humans. In my view, when you use a coding agent you're committing to forever maintaining that code with a coding agent. There are no human programmers participating in these projects.
I think oftentimes in the absence of context, people will substitute their own, usually worst-case context. They imagine someone vibe coding safety critical software that flies airplanes.
I think we much too often forget that the domain of software development has expanded its reach into literally everything and that we share a guild hall with all kinds: those who write deeply safety critical correct code, those who are hacking a blender, those who are just making their clerical task less repetitive, etc.