"There are so many issues and my mental model of the codebase has severely degraded."
Not only that, the less coding you do in general? Guess what, fixing issues that in the past wouldve been a doddle (muscle memory) become less harder due to atrophy.
Swear most people dont think straight and cant see the obvious.
Congrats. Now post this more often so the bozo's who downvote posts that push-against pro-LLM stuff f-off.
I came to the same conclusion when producing a video with Grok. Did the job but utterly painful and it was definitely very costly - I used 50 free-trial accounts and maxed them out each day for a month.
Im pretty sure these conclusions hold across all models and therefore the technology by extension.
Care to explain why? I think it’s not a bad analogy: contrasting two things with the same goal, one fast paced, saturates your cognitive load , and one that leaves more space for reflecting on what is actually happening, inherently less exhausting. You may disagree with the analysis, but it works in this framework.
There's that but youre missing a lot of variables.
E.g. if one of you had perfect sleep and the other didn't the individual with perfect sleep will perform better for longer.
I don't get why people try to simplify - you're removing important details that determine performance and therefore output. This leads to false conclusions.
Look, whether you like it or not AI is here and it is decent at some tasks and the world is using it to automate stuff. You saw how Clawdbot exploded, right? Despite users getting hacked left and right didn't stop the adoption. Yesterday there was again a hack incident. It's a burning pain that AI solves to the point where people don't care even if they get hacked.
Will I crash and burn? Maybe, you're right. But, that's why I'm taking things at a very slow pace. Only automating internal tasks. Only things I trust AI to do. Very very limited scope. What's really my alternative here?
Just sit back and watch the world move on? My alternative is not changing with the times and being stagnant. That's not really a solution. Even if I'm doing that, I want to have data points that AI is really a dead end instead of just assumptions. My alternative reality isn't a bed or roses - a lot of people at the top do believe they can replace me and my work (CTO) with AI, thanks to the hype. I'm just trying to evolve so I don't become a meme down the line. Can they actually replace me or my job with AI? Absolutely not from what I'm seeing. But hypes of cutting cost is always attractive to people at the top. Just trying to stay alive man, lol.
