Comment by iririririr
1 day ago
do you feel this is the same trade off of UI builders like android studio (or msvb6). you do in minutes what you previously did in 2, 3 hours.
is it all the work? no, but it's a part that's early on and have high perceived impact.
then, as you progress, that tool actually gets in the way and a new feature that would take 2 hours, now is around 2 days.
The old expense of installing new tools means that seeing how tools actually work in practice is simply impossible. You pretty much install a tool and you accept that it is the tool.
You have to know how to ask the right questions, but I think there's constant opportunities in anything computer-driven to say "this thing is taking 3 hours and I'd like to do it more often, can I do it in 3 minutes?" And that's always been true to an extent but AI makes it way more accessible.
In some ways, but it's tough to say if that's my ADHD or not. It's far too easy to leave one branch of reasoning now and jump to another whenever progress gets difficult.
Though in some areas where I can sustain interest, AI is helping me go deeper. For instance, I've been putting myself to sleep at night by just asking it questions about expectation maximization and Bayesian statistics. This has seriously boosted my understanding of cryo-EM alignment algorithms in a way I couldn't do in grad school because there was no professor that understood enough to help me when I got stuck reading literature.
So it's a double edged sword for sure.
> In some ways, but it's tough to say if that's my ADHD or not. It's far too easy to leave one branch of reasoning now and jump to another whenever progress gets difficult.
I have a co-worker who doesnt feel like ADHD helps him because he sits down and just starts... doing work and typing. Assign him a complex task, he will just start on it. Mind blowing he does this day in and day out. an absolute machine.