[fjfaase]

I still find coding a mentally exhausting task and maybe even more now that I am getting older. I find it harder to concentrate and I am more easily distracted. It often takes me time to get in the right mood to code. I guess my memory skills are probably also getting worse.

I suffer a lot from procrastination and I think one of the reasons is that I find it still a hard to write code. Which most of the time is not coding but reading and trying to understand code. And thinking about all the alternative ways to solve a problem. I often find myself struggling to commit my changes doubting whether my changes are good.

I also still find myself looking up the order of the parameters of standard C library functions that I have used over 30 years. I am dyslectic and struggle to remember facts. I also still find myself making stupid Boolean logic coding errors and make one-off mistakes. I still find myself stepping through loops with the debugger just to see if I did not make a stupid mistake.

It still often takes me more time to solve an issue than I had thought it would take me. There are days when I leave the office feeling that I have accomplished nothing because I have not committed any working code.

[Hedepig]

> I still find coding a mentally exhausting task and maybe even more now that I am getting older

If it helps, we're at the dawn of AI assisted development. That will take a lot of the cognitive burden, allowing us to focus on the "what" more than the "how"

[P5fRxh5kUvp2th]

I doubt it, the design of the code is much more important and that hasn't been solved by AI yet.

[Hedepig]

Reducing cognative load is still entirely helpful

I predict AI assisted archicture design will come soon