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Flow comes when challenge meets skill
Too much skill and too little challenge creates boredom;
too little skill and too much challenge creates anxiety
AI has reduced the challenge needed for achieving your goal, creating boredom
Remedy: find greater challenges?
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apercu • 04/24/2025
I would argue that the vast majority of challenges I have had in my (very long) tech career were not technical challenges anyway, rather they were "people" problems (e.g., extracting the actual requirements and maintaining scope stability).
I will start by saying I don't have much experience with the latest AI coding tools.
From what I've seen using them would lead to more boredom. I like solving problems. I don't like doing code reviews. I wouldn't trust any AI generated code at this stage without reviewing it. If I could swap that around so I write code and AI gives me a reasonable code review and catches my mistakes I'd be much more interested.