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Getting burnout from LLM-assisted coding or any other activity is here. What exhausts and leads to burnout, is probability. Sometimes you get so much dopamine
by sixtyj 17d ago
Getting burnout from LLM-assisted coding or any other activity is here.
What exhausts and leads to burnout, is probability.
Sometimes you get so much dopamine if it goes right.
And sometimes you feel like an idiot because LLM does so many mistakes even if you think that you prompt it right.
As the pace is so fast, you change your mind’s state so frequently and quickly that it may lead to a (mild) burnout.
- nicce 17d ago> As the pace is so fast, you change your mind’s state so frequently and quickly that it may lead to a (mild) burnout. This is so true. Cognitive brute-force always when dealing with AI.
- mw888 17d agoCertainly not always. There's a hedonic adjustment which happens however, where some tasks go very smoothly without much specification and a lot of "you know what I mean" to the LLM, while others then require you to get painfully specific after it badly misinterprets your intent. Or maybe you can just get too spoiled with it grokking your intent, then become so vague that your vague ideas are actually just bad ideas. Certainly has happened to me.
- sixtyj 17d agoAfter almost 4 years with LLMs, if my prompt is too vague that I don’t know how to ask precisely, I use this prompt “I have this idea… {description here} How would ideal prompt look like to make idea realize?” And in second round I polish prompt myself. It usually works.