Introduction
- After using AI heavily for almost a year now for a large part of my workflows I’ve noticed some weird side effects
- These took me a while to come to terms with so I wanted to talk about them to see if others are also starting to feel the same way
Main
- Completing tasks too quickly
- Whether it be coding or productivity related tasks I find myself rushing to a solution
- I use AI as the source of truth and it ‘solves’ the problem for me but I don’t retain the reason as to why or how it solved it
- I don’t look at alternatives and different paths to solving a problem
- No feeling of accomplishment, just done and onto the next one leaving me feeling drained but not accomplished
- Unable to properly appreciate my work anymore
- I used to take pride in some of the code I wrote or projects I built
- Now I can’t seem to relate what I’ve built to any sort of pride, it’s just “AI built it for me, great”
- Same applies to management, hard for me to evaluate my team without AI being in the back of my head as the one thats doing the work
- End of the day tons of work is getting done but the inability to connect to it just leaves me feeling lost
- Brain fatigue
- We can do so much more so I usually work on 2-3 things at once in different threads
- Switching between them and not being able to focus on one thing at a time tires me out, I’m not a good multitasker
- Just find myself zoning out at the end of the day
- Feels different from burnout but related
- Trust
- Not trusting the work that I’ve done or anyone else really
- If an AI does a 200 file change, the chance of a human properly reviewing that is pretty much 0 so a ton of code is going out without proper reviews
- Emails being sent to me sometimes feel AI written and even though that shouldn’t matter, it does for some reason and I don’t prioritize them
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