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AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #185
otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #158

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> as i’m learning how to prompt well Prompting isn't a real skill and you're not learning anything. "Claude 4.5 Sonnet operator" is not a job description.

I’m finding fewer and fewer people that need convincing that there’s some value in coding agents and prompting skills at this point. To the point where my reply to this is quite simple; You’ve been left behind and at this very late point in the game i feel no obligation to even try to convince you.

> there’s some value in coding agents

Sure. There's always some value.

> ...and prompting skills

"Prompting" is not a skill. Put it another way: there's no reason for an employer to pay you a salary for "prompting", because "prompting" is something that literally everyone can do.

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Post by aixpert »

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…

as long as it's new I tremendously enjoy binge watching Claude: I have three tabs open and if one of them is not doing something interesting I just switch to a different channel, and occasionally influenced the narrative

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Post by tjstarak »

sidk24 wrote: post #2

Author here. Not an anti-AI post. It's about the cognitive cost - faster tasks lead to more tasks, reviewing AI output all day causes decision fatigue, and the tool landscape churns weekly. Wrote about what actually helped. Curious if others are hitting similar walls.

Some of the points raised in the article resonate with me, but I see a lot of trademark phrases inserted by LLMs ("it's not X, it's Y" being the most obvious). Can you share what was your writing process? How much did you write yourself, whether you used LLM to proofread or write the entire text from bullet points, or maybe not at all?

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Post by jama211 »

Waterluvian wrote: post #240
mikkupikku wrote: post #198

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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…

Well said, people online are so quick to criticise LLM usage because of possible security holes or what have you.I can assure you, when making something dumb for fun I wouldn’t have checked it for security holes when I was coding it either.

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Post by jama211 »

swat535 wrote: post #255
mikkupikku wrote: post #112

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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 e…

Y’all were having fun? I always had fun making things, but the coding part was always a means to an end for me, and one that caused endless frustration at times. I never have to debug regex or write a single date format line by hand ever again, and I will never ever miss it.

Every bit of coding that did anything other than give me meaningful progress on features on the thing I was actually trying to build, which at times was 80%+ of it, was always terrible.

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Post by jama211 »

neom wrote: post #196
mikkupikku wrote: post #112

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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 :|

Oh man, I’d love your config if you were willing to share, that looks sweet

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Post by jama211 »

hxugufjfjf wrote: post #299
spacecadet wrote: post #226

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For some. I have never experienced this myself. All my energy goes into keeping unconsciously destructive people from sabotaging the effort.

What do you mean by that? Can you clarify?

They mean they feel intellectually superior to their peers and want to humble brag about it.

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Post by jama211 »

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)

This is true for me but just due to task anxiety in general, it’s not specific to coding. So I don’t get repeats of this with AI. If anything, it’s helped reduce the procrastination for me, because I feel more supported and less on my own with the task.

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Post by jitbit »

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…

Can't upvote this comment enough.

"You're not imagining it."

"But my days got harder. Not easier. Harder."

"Now?" as the paragraph opener

"Why? No reason." as the paragraph opener

Nice try OP, submitting your own post to HN.

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