Comment by tobyhinloopen
6 days ago
I found that AI coding allows me to work on more stuff because it's doing its thing faster, but it also greatly diminishes my attention per project, reducing to less optimal solutions.
Nobody is complaining though, stuff gets done.
I'd argue "diminishes attention per project, reducing to less optimal" is a great summary of the attention problem.
Like, you can learn speed reading / scanning and go through all of HN's daily submissions in half an hour (... I do that), but how much do you actually retain? Or you can pick one and go in deep with it. I've seen both on HN, it's fairly easy to pick out those that just read the headline and jumped into the comments (...like me) and those that read and understood the article, did or brought some extra research, and did a thoughtful and well crafted reply.