I really do enjoy coding. I always have. It’s one of those purely creative things where you sit in front of a task, think about it, and after hours or days arrive at a solution. It is THE single best thing to get me into flow state… except that flow state doesn’t exist anymore since I started coding with AI. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the job shifted from “deeply tinkering about a problem” to “tell the AI stuff, let it run forever, and then code review,” I have tons of idle time… on good days I grab another coffee, on bad days I fall down the YouTube rabbit hole, and on “productive” days I work on three things at once (as the loop always is “start task, wait wait wait, review, restart”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a flow state killer\u2014that state I enjoy most while programming. Time flying by, thoughts and ideas combined with a good chunk of hard work flowing onto the keyboard and becoming reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why do you then keep using AI? Didn’t also this, this and this research show that programmers are less productive with it? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I still think that on the projects where I’m mainly working with AI, it definitely speeds me up, but my days on the other hand don’t feel enjoyable anymore. I read about Cerebras coming out with a coding model that’s supposedly super fast\u2014maybe that could keep you in the state as the idle time gets reduced, but honestly I doubt it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Very sorry that this isn’t an article with a solution at the end, as I don’t have one…<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I really do enjoy coding. I always have. It’s one of those purely creative things where you sit in front of a task, think about it, and after hours or days arrive at a solution.…<\/p>\n