[andix]

What I noticed: AI development constantly breaks my flow. It makes me more tired, and I work for shorter time periods on coding.

It's a myth that you can code a whole day long. I usually do intervals of 1-3 hours for coding, with some breaks in between. Procrastination can even happen on work related things, like reading other project members code/changes for an hour. It has a benefit to some extent, but during this time I don't get my work done.

Agentic AI works the best for me. Small refactoring tasks on a selected code snippet can be helpful, but isn't a huge time saver. The worst are AI code completions (first version Copilot style), they are much more noise then help.

[rightbyte]

It would be interesting to record what one do in a day at the desk. Probably quite depressing to watch.

Like, I think 1h would be streaching it for mature codebases.

[andix]

The 1h I'm talking about is not all the time I might spend reading on code. It's the time I might procrastinate on my tasks with reading unrelated code.

Like doom scrolling on social media: Let's see what the fancy new guy got done this week. I need to feel better, I'm just going to look at the commits of the guy in the other team that always breaks production. Let's see how close he got to that recently, ...