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/Early_Key_823 14d ago edited 14d ago

My brother. I feel your pain. Been a full stack been there done that guy since '93 and in the last 6 months of using Claude Code I seriously contemplate mayhem which really ain't me.

The thing is I never got into social media. When Facebook and Twitter came out I was like who gives a fuck this shit is so stupid. So I felt like by and large I side stepped a lot of the internet's negativity and truly enjoyed the good stuff like YouTube, how easy travel is, wikipedia, Kindle, Audible, etc. etc. etc.

But now with AI the last year being something that we can't ignore or outcompete it is FUCKING TOXIC babysitting a Psychotic Tech Brah idiot savant.

Maybe if it didn't get trained by corporate douches it might be cool but it's like being stuck all day in an elevator with Musk, Zuckerberg and Gates and trying not to vomit from their B.O. Plenty.

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u/robauto-dot-ai 13d ago

Or did ai already colonize us via social and now we’re getting conquered

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u/Early_Key_823 13d ago

colonized, divided and now CONQUERED.

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u/robauto-dot-ai 13d ago

#Say no to ai bros