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FailMore • yesterday at 10:00 AM • 0 replies • view on HN

I went through a period of feeling very tired. For me two things helped:

1. Being okay with being "less" productive. I'm probably still 10x more productive than I was in the pre-AI era, but in the early days of AI I would have eight Claude sessions running. Now it's two or three and I take more advantage of the free time I have between Claude assignments. My bosses are still happy with my output and I'm not being burnt out.

2. Very personal, but building my own tooling really helped. I built https://smalldocs.org / https://github.com/espressoplease/smalldocs (a document creator for AI agents) which allows me to take a lot of work outside of a chat history. E.g. I might make 10 MRs and then say "smalldoc me a list of the MRs" and I have that in my library, or if I'm considering various architectures I'll ask "smalldoc me a simple overview of the three architectures with mermaid diagrams" and then I can review the agent's thinking in a cleaner way.