alt Hacker NewsWhy start several threads in parallel to begin with? If waiting is an issue, maybe you should break that one task into multiple steps. That would only produce more output at a lower quality. Nothing has changed about the human thinking capacity. Focus on one thing and get it done.
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coffeefirst • yesterday at 8:56 PM
This is the right question. The science on multitasking and frenetic context switching is pretty clear. New software doesn’t change that.
paulddraper • yesterday at 8:49 PM
Because LLMs and tools are not instant.
Even pre-AI I would work in parallel while I waited for tests to finish, or deploy to go out or whatever.
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This feels like another software engineering truism that gets forgotten in the LLM age - if the ticket requires more than a two week sprint's worth of work (ie 8+ points), it should be broken down. Otherwise you bury so much context and tech debt while also making your reviewers deeply unhappy and cognitively depleted.
Have your LLMs treat you like you want to be treated as a code reviewer!