Ask HN: Does your mind drift while waiting for AI prompts to finish?
3 pointsby cryptoSympozium6 hours ago8 comments
  • jr_isidore6 hours ago
    "Flibbertigibbeting" and "Beboppin" are the new i'm waiting for it to compile, but while the binary outcome of compilation (either it compiles or it doesn't) keeps your head in the game, the open-endedness of a Claude response can be disorienting after you've come back from the YouTube/Reddit wormhole -- like how on Monday you ask yourself wtf you were doing on Friday. But it's just a matter of time before prompting is as fast as Googling... and then it's off to collecting UBI!
    • cryptoSympozium5 hours ago
      hah legend of a comment. and i agree regarding the open-endedness, it never settles it, and because it doesn't give you a concrete answer you are drawn into replying back and the infinite loop begins. Yeah, Elon said it is the great thing in the world, the UBI - LMAO. we will get paid enough to pay bills and fry our brains using LLMs. Now thats utopia.
  • spgorbatiuk5 hours ago
    Yeah, my assumed neurodivergence has never been more apparent to me than in these moments. Sometimes it feels like genuinely more stuff is getting done in parallel, but I haven't figured out the key to this kind of performance. So, at times it is just the fatigue from context switching without the results that would justify it.
  • lionelgarnier6 hours ago
    Yes, often working on several topics in parallel (usualy 3 to 4) and that's a big mental effort to switch from one to the other, also drifting from some priority topics to useless stuff... I never really step back on that but I agree that this is a real problem that can lead to inefficiency
  • lebronocta6 hours ago
    > time of waiting till AI is done So you are saying that you are not running multiple shit in parallel?
    • cryptoSympozium6 hours ago
      lol sometimes yes. but what im saying is about the side effect of this idle-but-not-so-idle moment.
  • shaunpud6 hours ago
    This is how people work now?
    • cryptoSympozium6 hours ago
      Well I guess so. AI is not really an option anymore. it is pushed inside most of the companies. Im currently in a big blockchain company leading an engineering team.
      • n1xis10t4 hours ago
        What will happen if you don’t use AI? Will they fire you?
  • physicsguy6 hours ago
    I come to HN...
  • bell-cot6 hours ago
    Sounds just like https://xkcd.com/303/
    • hash04 hours ago
      Well... but at least swordfighting and swashbuckling your fellow co-developer is some genuine human connection in between bursts of work.
  • farrukh23buttt6 hours ago
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