alt Hacker NewsOver 40 here, and I’m having the opposite experience. Honestly, I think experience is part of why. Years of projects teach you what to ignore: which generated code actually needs a careful review, which decisions matter, and when to stop. I don’t run many things in parallel. I’d rather do one thing well than babysit five agents.
It also helps that a lot of my AI use is on my own side projects, where I set the pace. That makes it fun instead of draining. Maybe the tiredness has less to do with AI itself and more to do with being pushed to maximize throughput?
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Putting all my requirements into words just to be misunderstood is the worst part. In my brain I have everything layed out. Then, the clanker will miss nuances and I have to elaborate or realgin. It would be okay if it would be a junior. But it is advertised as a superior.
I understand that faster results may be rewarding; But nothing as rewarding then refactoring some legacy application by hand and deleting 50% more LoC then adding/modifying. Or picking the exact right abstraction now which I will use in two weeks from now and happily grind on my solid, craftsmen stones layed out beforehand.
Imho our craft was not understood beforehand. Now folks think they can grasp everything one mentions on the same level - they have "built" similiar things with ai. So it is even more frustrating to argue about stuff.
It is the worst technology ever emerged imho.
I agree with your observation. If I have kept the same targets as before, of course I would be working less. But being able to do more means being more ambitious. But the competition is also growing so in general the pattern is everybody works more