Ask HN: What are you doing while the AI is "thinking"?

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Post by joe8756438 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 5:40 PM UTC

I’m considering knitting.

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing while the AI is "thinking"?

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Post by PaulHoule » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 5:41 PM UTC

I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you.

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing while the AI is "thinking"?

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Post by dtagames » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 5:51 PM UTC

Trying to catch its mistakes flying by in the console at light speed so I can anticipate what I'll have to change in the prompt, plan, or code.

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing while the AI is "thinking"?

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Post by polishdude20 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 6:47 PM UTC

Petting my dog

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing while the AI is "thinking"?

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Post by incomingpain » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 7:08 PM UTC

I have gedit open with multiple tabs where i type up my next prompts to paste.

Surf HN mainly /asknew

Surf mainly r/LocalLLaMA/

check slack

be a user of the thing im coding on, try to find things that broke. try to break it. try to find tweaks that are needed. check docker logs.

researching my next big expansion; but need to architect the idea first. Oh hey MaxMind's GeoLite2 Country, City, and ASN databases or oh hey bluecat rest api python library.

I havent really been into video games lately, but in the past dungeon crawl stone soup or lichess.