Comment by iJohnDoe
1 day ago
You make a good point. That’s why there is AI fatigue. People are moving at speeds that aren’t normal and it’s mentally taxing.
If it’s not already a thing, it will be soon, the mental health aspects of all professions moving at unsustainable speeds and what that will do to people.
No stakeholder will care, they're high on the illusion they can drain a batch of people and then replace them with fresh meat.
Nobody will take care of us. Ever.
But it is not illusion. Everyone knows about conditions at Amazon but they never had an issue to hire people.
Oh I agree about there (and many other places). I was talking about programmers. We started getting treated like warehouse workers, gradually.
they pay
> You make a good point. That’s why there is AI fatigue. People are moving at speeds that aren’t normal and it’s mentally taxing.
I don't think any vague claim of "speed" has anything to do with fatigue.
I do think the parallel world monitoring and validating N work fronts, followed by rounds of fixes where you lay there waiting for the agents to converge, is the defining factor.
Instead of you hunkering down and hammering out a single task where your full attention can be focused 100% on a problem, your mindset is a kin to juggling N balls and hoping to not let any of which to fall.
So it's not really about speed but throughput, and keeping up with the throughout rate is mentally taxing.
Reading, understanding and verifying code has always required more cognitive effort than typing it out. Running agents in parallel just forces you to spend 100% of your day doing the most taxing part of the job
I guess a shop can burn away his whole crew, no newcomers- and the old guard is burned out and quits- and the profession suddenly is just AI and managers yelling at AI realizing the job leads to burn out fast.
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