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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 iterateoften »

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…

For me plan mode is consistently pretty fast. Then to implement I just walk away and wait for it to be done while working on new plan in new tab

Probably more stress if I’m on battery and don’t want the laptop to sleep or WiFi to get interrupted.

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Post by sidk24 »

falloutx wrote: post #52
stuartjohnson12 wrote: post #30

Absolute middlebrow dismissal incoming, but the real thinking atrophy is writing blog posts about thinking atrophy caused by LLMs using an LLM. It is getting very hard to continue viewing HN as a place where I want to come and read content others have written when blog posts written largely with ChatGPT are constantly upvoted to the top. It's not the co-writing process I have a problem with, it's that ChatGPT can tur…

Why do you think author used ChatGPT to write this? It has human imperfections and except this 'The "just one more prompt" trap' I didnt think it was written by a prompt

Author here: Sir, it is almost fully written by human and english/grammar improved by AI

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by Davidzheng »

Forge36 wrote: post #57
wouldbecouldbe wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s why now it’s legitimate to work on multiple features or projects at the same time

Context switching like that is exhausting

really interested in what the brain does when it "loads" the context for something it's familiar with but is currently unloaded from the working memory. Does it mostly try to align some internal state? or more just load memories into fast access

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Post by disiplus »

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…

This is real, so im a freelancer, i used this small invoicing platfrom to create invoices for my customers. At "work" im working on accounting systems, and erp-s. So with AI, why would i pay monthly for invoicing when i can build it myself. After i day i had invoicing working. Like the simple thing where you get PDF out. Then i started implementing doube-entry booking. And support different tax systems. And then, but we need a sales part then crm, then warehouse. Then projects to track time and so on. And now i have a full saas that i dont need and im not going to waste time on competing in that market. Now im thinking of puting it as open source.

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Post by taway1874 »

gaigalas wrote: post #45
taway1874 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Explain?

True determinism is rare, we often don't get it. That's what purely functional languages are all about and they're a minority. We are trained on the other thing: unpredictable user interaction, parallelism, circuit-breaking, etc. That's the bread and butter of engineering (of all kinds, really, not just IT). The non-deterministic intuition is baked into engineering much more than determinism is.

Fair point. But are we moving even further away from determinism with the current ways of working with AI?

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Post by Davidzheng »

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…

makes you wonder how automate-able this babysitter roles is...

Re: AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it

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Post by clejack »

When I was in my mid 20s, I interned at a machine shop building automotive parts. In general, the work was pretty easy. I was modifying things via cad, doing dry runs on the cnc machine, loading raw material, and then unloading finished products for processing.

Usually there was a cadence to things that allowed for a decent amount of downtime while the machine was running, but I once got to a job where the machine milled the parts so quickly, that I spent more time loading and unloading parts than anything else. Once I started the first part, I didn't actually rest until all of them were done. I ended up straining my back from the repetitive motion. I was shocked because I was in good shape and I wasn't really moving a significant amount.

If I talk about excessive concern for productivity (or profit) being a problem, certain people will roll their eyes. It's hard to separate a message from the various agendas we perceive around us. Regardless of personal feelings, there will always be a negative fallout for people when there's a sudden inversion in workflow like the one described in this article or the one I experienced during my internship.

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