AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
2 points by freddyb
2 points by freddyb
Who would've thought that bouncing from task to task faster than ever before using tools that constantly break your state of flow and rarely produce what you want them to would lead to burnout? The cognitive burden isn't any lighter with agentic coding if you do your due diligence.
P.S. Another real thing is the fatigue of reading LLM generated blog posts.
If I notice that a blog post or really any text is LLM, I just don’t read it. If for some reason I have to (it’s the boss’s email or something), I might ask an LLM to give me a summary. Because if text doesn’t contain any thoughts, why am I reading it? Reading takes effort; my brain has limited cycles. What is the point of expending my thought effort on something that didn’t take any thought effort to produce?
(Come to think of it, what I really want is not a summary but a good guess as to what prompt was used to generate the article – basically, a reverse engineering of the part of its production where thinking was still involved. But I’m rather dubious that this could usefully be asked of an LLM, so a summary it is.)
Oh good. I’d say that one of the smells that you’re using ai in a way that can harm you is that you’re waiting for it to complete, and watching it. Either switch to some other work or do something for yourself or some else in your life. Text a friend.