“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
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“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI + Capitalism creates an energy vampire https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163
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“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI + Capitalism creates an energy vampire https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163
@saraislet ...did he write something sane this time? The last thing of his that I read was, uh, not good
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“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI + Capitalism creates an energy vampire https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163
@saraislet I 100% agree... except this goes for any "speed improvement" tech. Although I'd say that AI has only slowed me down because I get to now review the shit people have been able to do own their own but now instead "vibe" their way through it with crappy results that I need to fix ^^'
I'm a happy non-user
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“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI + Capitalism creates an energy vampire https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163
@saraislet know, sure. but not accept. it tore me apart and i’m still mad at myself that i only went back to the grind part time (cue brain worm saying that time spent writing this is stolen from $employer)
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@saraislet ...did he write something sane this time? The last thing of his that I read was, uh, not good
@BoredomFestival this has at least some good points and some
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@saraislet know, sure. but not accept. it tore me apart and i’m still mad at myself that i only went back to the grind part time (cue brain worm saying that time spent writing this is stolen from $employer)
@doomsey what don't you accept about it?
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@BoredomFestival this has at least some good points and some
🤨🫣🫠@saraislet OK, this one is actually readable and does have some interesting points, but the elephant in the room is that he asserts that it will 10x your productivity, but it utterly exhausts you to do so... without explaining why it's so much more exhausting than "ordinary" work.
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@doomsey what don't you accept about it?
@saraislet Ah, that’s the problem. There’s a big difference between knowing something is true and having that truth be something you can feel. I’ve known that being productive a few hours in a day was all I could manage for a really long time. But I didn’t ever accept it, at best coming to a detente with myself of sorts that blank-stare time was work.
And then I ended up in a situation where I was told 40 hours is mandatory, and I fell apart.
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@saraislet OK, this one is actually readable and does have some interesting points, but the elephant in the room is that he asserts that it will 10x your productivity, but it utterly exhausts you to do so... without explaining why it's so much more exhausting than "ordinary" work.
@BoredomFestival strong agree — if it exhausts you, then it isn't sustainable. That's why I think it's akin to trying to maintain hyperfocus 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, consistently. It's just not feasible for humans in the long-term.
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“So I guess what I’m trying to say is, the new workday should be three to four hours.“
Yup! That's what every worker knows and should have been fighting for with solidarity for decades. Every neurodivergent person knows that we can't do concentrated work for more than 3 hours, and that extended hyperfocus blocks drain our energy for the next day. It's not sustainable.
Steve Yegge writes about how AI + Capitalism creates an energy vampire https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163
This is an honest post about some of the practical challenges of being a software engineer using AI.
Siddhant shares concrete relatable examples of many common experiences among software engineers, from context switching and code review fatigue to tool churn and engineering perfectionism clashing with nondeterministic AI output.
Siddhant also suggests specific practical changes to help software engineers struggling with the daily habits around coding with AI. (These are probably most useful to early-mid career folks as they're lessons likely already learned by more senior folks, but could be worth sharing with colleagues!)
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