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by markmatsushima
14 days ago
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When an LLM read a lengthy log and source code and found a bug in seconds, I felt useless and burnt out. It is strange that I feel the same tiredness as when I finish a project that takes a week by hand, even when it is done with an LLM in a day of conversation. |
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I feel burnt out in spoken conversations because I find it very difficult to process sentences at speed. But I don't feel that at all when reading, writing or listening to podcasts because I can go at my own pace.
Similarly I love maths and it doesn't give burnt out when I do it myself, but in school I remember it being agonising trying to get my brain to keep up with everyone around me.
I think this is why AI burns out engineers. Agents can do things do much faster than us so we're no longer comprehending things at our own pace, but trying to keep pace with the AI.
I feel that useless thing too. It hurts me more than anything. I've poured my heart into so many blog posts, tutorials and open source projects over the years. They were genuinely hard at the time. Each tutorial or code project might have been weeks of effort – and it showed. Today an AI could do the same in 10 mins from a single prompt. What was a source of pride for me, now just feels like a major waste of the last 2 decades of my life.
Maybe that's for the best though. I think in hindsight I over index on the value of knowledge. Maybe there are more important things in life.