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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by keybored »

simonw wrote: post #5

I really feel this. I can make meaningful progress on half a dozen projects in the course of a day now but I end the day exhausted . I've had conversations with people recently who are losing sleep because they're finding building yet another feature with "just one more prompt" irresistible. Decades of intuition about sustainable working practices just got disrupted. It's going to take a while and some discipline to…

You write a lot about AI. If this is in your free time why not just take a break? If you are ten times more productive, rest for at least twice as much. I don’t get it.

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by mikkupikku »

stack_framer wrote: post #194
mikkupikku wrote: post #112

Earlier 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.

I appreciate your honesty. For what it's worth, this is not a commercial endeavor and is all motivated entirely by scratching my own personal itches. I'm not being paid to do this.

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by trcf23 »

amelius wrote: post #144
mikkupikku wrote: post #112

Earlier 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)

I didn’t know it was a common thing but it’s definitely something I’ve experienced!

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by dvfjsdhgfv »

mikkupikku wrote: post #112
parpfish wrote: post #18

For 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…

Man you restored the original vibe in vibe coding.

(In all seriousness though, it's probably not good for your health.)

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by highspeedbus »

Obviously AI generated article. And the author hasn't made any attempt to disclose it. Take that into consideration.

Yet, The Machine has good points.

>For someone whose entire career is built on "if it broke, I can find out why," this is deeply unsettling. Not in a dramatic way. In a slow, grinding, background-anxiety way. You can never fully trust the output. You can never fully relax. Every interaction requires vigilance.

> you are collaborating with a probabilistic system, and your brain is wired for deterministic ones. That mismatch is a constant, low-grade source of stress.

Back when I bought my first computer, it was a crappy machine that crashed all the time. (Peak of the fake capacitors plague in 2006). That made me doubt and second guess everything that is usually taken for granted in hardware and software (Like simply booting up). That mindset proved useful latter in my career.

I’m not saying anything new. Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas have written about it in a way better way. I find it to still hold very relevant guidelines.

https://www.khoury.northeastern.edu/home/lieber/courses/csg1...

>Think! About Your Work

>Critically Analyze What You Read and Hear

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by Matheus28 »

raincole wrote: post #150
barishnamazov wrote: post #29

This write-up has good ideas but gives me the "AI-generated reading fatigue." Things that can cleanly be expressed in 1-2 sentences are whole paragraphs, often with examples that seem unnecessary or unrealistic. There are also some wrong claims like below: > The Hacker News front page alone is enough to give you whiplash. One day it's "Show HN: Autonomous Research Swarm" and the next it's "Ask HN: How will AI swarms…

> HN homepage is still quite sane. Those Show HN posts aren't the insane part. Insane part is like: > Thank you, OpenClaw. Thank you, AGI—for me, it’s already here. > If you haven't spent at least $1,000 on tokens today per human engineer, your software factory has room for improvement > Code must not be reviewed by humans > Following this hypothesis, what C did to assembler, what Java did to C, what Javascript/Pytho…

I personally believe what we’re seeing are newcomers who aren’t even programmers who fall for all this crap and then come here to post about it

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by Kiro »

dangus wrote: post #220
Kiro wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is your comment relevant to the article?

How is your comment relevant to the article? My comment is relevant because I’m pointing out, like the article does, that AI isn’t turning out to be anywhere near as useful and low-friction as it has been promised. Hence, the fatigue. Your comment is the one that contributes nothing.

The article is talking about physical fatigue from being more productive. Your comment is about the "people are tired of the AI hype" type of fatigue.

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by Synthetic7346 »

keybored wrote: post #241
simonw wrote: post #5

I really feel this. I can make meaningful progress on half a dozen projects in the course of a day now but I end the day exhausted . I've had conversations with people recently who are losing sleep because they're finding building yet another feature with "just one more prompt" irresistible. Decades of intuition about sustainable working practices just got disrupted. It's going to take a while and some discipline to…

You write a lot about AI. If this is in your free time why not just take a break? If you are ten times more productive, rest for at least twice as much. I don’t get it.

I assume that if you take a break you'll have missed a lot when you come back, at the pace things are evolving. Which is OK for some people like OP but maybe not for simonw

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by neom »

0_____0 wrote: post #236
neom wrote: post #196

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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!

I was totally obsessed with it, when I first got into linux as a kid in the late 90s, I spent forever and hours tweaking just my bashrc. I spent entirely too long on this stupid terminal, the media player and getting the rainbow thing to match up to the time of whatever was playing... oh well, had fun!
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