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Except there is a well-known phenomenon among programmers that commencing to work requires more energy than working itself (*). Every time you chill out and co
by amelius 9mo ago
Except there is a well-known phenomenon among programmers that commencing to work requires more energy than working itself (*).
Every time you chill out and come back to work, you will have to invest that extra bit of start-up energy. Which can be draining.
(* probably has to do with reloading your working memory)
- tartoran 9mo agoContext switching tax.
- spacecadet 9mo agoFor some. I have never experienced this myself. All my energy goes into keeping unconsciously destructive people from sabotaging the effort.
- hxugufjfjf 9mo agoWhat do you mean by that? Can you clarify?
- jama211 9mo agoThey mean they feel intellectually superior to their peers and want to humble brag about it.
- spacecadet 9mo agoNo. Im the dumbest person in the room, mate. It means I have to deal with you all day. Sigh.
- jama211 9mo agoWell, at least one of those statements is probably true.
- spacecadet 9mo agoYes, the first one obviously. Try it out sometime.
- jama211 9mo agoI err, don’t think you’re saying what you think you’re saying.
- spacecadet 9mo agoOmg you instigator, you are this person! Let me just spell it out and end this. Im an idiot man, I dont try to project intelligence, I just listen and act... and sometimes comment on the negative behavior of others, which comes from lived experience. Appreciate you being an example of antagonistically wasting someone's time because of what? An assumption of what I meant? wow.
- jama211 9mo agoOh I’m the one wasting your time now? Suuure buddy…
- spacecadet 9mo agoIt means people go through life making selfishly unconscious choices that hurt collaborative efforts and its tiring to constantly have to reign these people in instead of building said thing.
- dwringer 9mo agoWhile this is certainly very true, I find coding through an LLM to require far less effort dedicated to this cognitive switching than does writing in some programming language, primarily because I no longer have to load the mental context for converting my high level human instructions to code that a programming environment actually supports. The mental context seems more lightweight and closer to the way I think about the problem when I'm not sitting at the computer actively working on it. If an idea comes to me while I'm away from the computer I can momentarily sit down, type in whatever I just thought of, and get going almost immediately. I think it also saves a huge amount of cognitive load and stress (for me) involved with switching around between different programs and languages, an unfortunate fact of life when dealing with legacy systems.
- trcf23 9mo agoI didn’t know it was a common thing but it’s definitely something I’ve experienced!
- jama211 9mo agoThis is true for me but just due to task anxiety in general, it’s not specific to coding. So I don’t get repeats of this with AI. If anything, it’s helped reduce the procrastination for me, because I feel more supported and less on my own with the task.