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by ryanschaefer 40 days ago
> But that afternoon, fueled by curiosity and frustration, I felt a switch flip in my brain, and I dived head-first into a rabbit hole with no turning back.

https://xkcd.com/356/

It happens to all of us. However, I think it’s much easier nowadays with LLMs for something productive like this to come out of it. I can notice something wrong and triage or even fix it before the point where I’d normally start to feel the subconscious pull of opportunity cost telling me to stop.