alt Hacker News> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI.
It's been downright spooky to watch people I know personally or been familiar with totally fall down the rabbit hole.
That said, like with everything, it depends on the person. Some people are taking the Jack Nicholson route, others are finally taking time off and enjoying their life (I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs).
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> (I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs).
What did the LLM's speed up that was taking that time away from you?
> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI.
It's not like we hadn't been warned by decades of sci-fi work, and researchers, and historians, telling us everything that would be wrong with AI
> I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs
No you're not. You could very likely organize your life to have your nights and weekends without AI. It's just a choice you made not to do it before
> (I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs).
Why weren't you taking them off before?
I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs
Research has repeatedly shown that people can only be productive a certain number of hours in a week. People who work more then a healthy number of hours are probably doing busywork.
I have always taken off nights and weekends and I have built a lot of things I am proud of. I am also very happy with my career so far.
I'm in my forties now with a teenage kid and I often realize how fast life flies by and we only get one shot at it. So I'm very happy I chose to work part-time some years, so that I could spend the afternoons with our kid.