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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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ramon156 wrote: post #239
stack_framer wrote: post #194

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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 littl…

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Synthetic7346 wrote: post #249
keybored wrote: post #241

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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

I meant like watch a movie.

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Post by swat535 »

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…

Programming stopped feeling fun for me once MBAs and bean counters took over. There's rarely time to write thoughtful code anymore. Even convincing management to invest in a sane architecture feels like an endless uphill battle.

Engineer teams are nothing but an annoying expense on the balance sheet and the goal is to cram as many features, as quickly as possible to get the sale.

That's exactly why I'm happy to use every tool available to get the work done efficiently. To this end, LLMs have been great for me, especially when dealing with large amounts of boilerplate code.

Long gone the days of crafting artisan code.

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Post by bob_theslob646 »

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #195
bob_theslob646 wrote: post #12

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Throw in the fact that clawdbot can work 24/7. It reminds me of why people wanted financial markets to be 24/7. We as a society should probably take a look at that otherwise it may lead to burnout in a not so small percentage of people

Why we as a society should give a fuck if someone can’t stop prompting? Unless you mean we as a society should make you pay for the damages your prompts are doing to nature?

>Why we as a society should give a fuck if someone can’t stop prompting?

It is not prompting, it is the constant feeling that you always have to be "on."

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Post by ThomasServo »

I'm certainly getting tired of the AI slop images and videos. For coding and software development, I'm outright excited (and a little scared) of what I've been able to accomplish with GPT and Claude. I'm a software developer with 25 years experience living in the upper Midwest USA.

I write software professionally and remotely for large boring insurance company, but I'm building a side project of an area of interest using AI tools to assist, and I've created in a couple months a few hours per week what would have taken me a year or more to create. I've read other's comments about having to babysit the AI tools, but that's not so bad.

The little benefit I've noticed using AI tools to "vibecode" is sometimes they come back with solutions that I never would have come up with. ...and then there's the solutions where I click the Undo button and shake my head.

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Post by Salgat »

Am I the only one that primarily learns by doing? If I'm not writing code, only doing code reviews, my familiarity and proficiency with the codebase gradually goes down, even if I'm still reading all the code being written. There's a lot of value lost when you cut out the part where you have to critically think up the solution rather than just reviewing it.
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