Comment by kossTKR
6 days ago
Very important point, but there's also the sheer amount of reading you have to do, the inevitable scope creep, gargantuan walls text going back and fourth making you "skip" constantly, looking here then there, copying, pasting, erasing, reasking.
Literally the opposite of focus, flow, seeing the big picture.
At least for me to some degree. There's value there as i'm already using these tools everyday but it also seems like a tradeoff i'm not really sure how valuable is yet. Especially with competition upping the noise too.
I feel SO unfocused with these tools and i hate it, it's stressful and feels less "grounded", "tactile" and enjoyable.
I've found myself in a new weird workflowloop a few times with these tools mindlessly iterating on some stupid error the LLM keeps not fixing, while my mind simply refuses to just fix it myself way faster with a little more effort and that's a honestly a bit frightening.
I relate to this a bit, and on a meta level I think the only way out is through. I'm trying to embrace optimizing the big picture process for my enjoyment and for positive and long-term effective mental states, which does include thinking about when not to use the thing and being thoughtful about exactly when to lean on it.