Comment by hansmayer

13 days ago

Without the intent of hijacking whatever it is you are trying to achieve: I've found the best antidote to the AI-fatigue is to rely less on it. There is no way I am going to spend my day, or my employees day for that matter in reviewing thousands of LoC of bad AI-slop. In my teams we've dialed it back to just consulting mode and asking suggestions,e.g. replacement for good old search, because once you ask the GenAI to write a few thousands of LoC for you, you're also abandoning a lot architecture decisions (which you then have to figure out ad-hoc again, when you do the review of the slop, or at the latest when you notice the "smart" tool has yet again put a secret in plaintext or something similar). So yeah, if you have the so-called AI-fatigue, just use less of the so-called AI.

Absolutely right! Although I've found AI great for learning. It doesn't write my code for me, or my prose, or my devops scripts, but it's part of the process of me learning as I write them.