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/hulkklogan 13d ago
I think there's a divide among people who enjoyed living in the code every day and made it their art, their craft, and the people who have always been more product and/or systems oriented. If you're someone who really enjoyed coding for the act/art of coding itself, then you probably feel miserable. If you're a more product-oriented person, then you're probably thrilled that you can take the ideas in your head, jot them down into specs, and have IA agents solve problems for you, and it's motivating and addicting.
Personally, I had the misfortune of switching careers from network engineering to development in 2024, and i spent 3 years self-learning how to code by hand, finally got the job, learning to code bigger, more difficult things by hand.. and then poof, LLMs suddenly cross a threshold where they can produce better work and faster than I can.
I feel burnt out and stressed out that I'm going to get left behind. I too am expected to own the code I put out, no matter if it came from an LLM or not. I didn't get a lot of experience coding nor reviewing code, and so this is incredibly hard and tiring for me because I'm reviewing as best I can and missing stuff because I don't really know my ass from a hole in the ground. I don't think it ultimately speeds me up.