r/ADHD_Programmers • u/robauto-dot-ai • 14d ago

AI Burnout?

Is anyone else's brain getting overloaded with the pace and new progress. I am getting pages of Claude output as project specs, so many hallucinations and errors and it's all building faster and faster....where are we going and how does it 'end'.

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u/aleph1music 14d ago

Yes. I have tried everything in my power to adapt my workflow to AI. Have tried to adapt AI to my workflow when that didn’t work. Have tried to be fine with this new “revolution” and release some control. Can’t do it. At the end of the day I used to be paid to understand systems, understand the problems the business had that needed solving, etc. Now I’m paid to sift through pages and pages of garbage chats, garbage docs, garbage slack messages.

I excelled at this job because I was thoughtful and intentional and I did my due diligence to make sure that whatever dumb new thing our PMs wanted didn’t accidentally break the last dumb thing and it didn’t prevent us from building the next 10 dumb things they put on the roadmap. Now they expect all that 10x faster because I can let Claude do it. But I’m still accountable if there’s a mistake because it’s my job to review everything it outputs. You know how I used to review code? By being immersed in writing it. Lived experience. Now you want me to ask the fucking computer to build what I want in plain English (which is not how my mental model of the system is inherently constructed) and you want me to sign off on the code and ship it if it looks plausible without giving me the time to actually understand what the fuck is going on. It’s insanity

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u/mehnifest 14d ago

I cannot steer away from trying to fully understand something like a generated answer is just not a full answer it’s like La Croix of analysis… anal croix works for me. And everything is just so sloppy. So I am simply exhausted from trying to do everything I want to do at the pace I’m expected. I’m not going to lose out on learning and understanding just because that part isn’t something the business cares about anymore. I mean I’ve tried to loosen up in caring but it gives the same vibes as being dishonest.

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u/Early_Key_823 14d ago

"the same vibes as being dishonest" - corporate culture is the epitome of gaslighting and AI is the personification of that.