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by scrollaway 23 days ago
Idk about you but this type of intensification of my work has been extremely good for my mental health, on all points:

1. I feel genuinely more productive, spending a lot less time on boilerplate and much more of my genuine time is spent thinking and communicating the thinking process.

2. I can take a ton of breaks, basically whenever I want. "Flow" is now entirely design flow and can be interrupted much more easily without damaging it.

3. If there is anything I actively dislike in my workflow or that makes me not enjoy my time... I can fix my workflow so that either I'm not the one doing it, or the item in question is no longer necessary.

AI is crazy. I get it, if you're at a shitty job that doesn't understand how to adapt well, it's tough... but if you're working on your own (like Simon does on this project), it's absolutely amazing and you're in full control of your life.

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I love how this completely personal opinion and experience is getting downvoted. The blind hate on anything AI on HN is mind boggling. True ostrich behaviour.
Please don't post such low effort comments. Complaining about the downvotes is a faux pas.

Ask AI to tell you five reasons you _could_ be downvoted for this post.

It's not low effort. I've noticed the blind AI hate on HN and I talked about it before. I think that "downvotes on the report of an experience" is good evidence of this. People don't want to hear that AI coding has positive outcomes.