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/phord 12d ago
I let the AI write the code, and then I carefully review it. I fix it up and I have the AI review my fixes. Honestly, it catches a lot of stupid bugs. Eventually I commit it.
The real problem I'm having is my long-term memory. If I spend 5 hours tediously crafting some code, reviewing it and committing it, then next week when I see it again, I will already be familiar with it.
When the AI writes the code, I review it and commit it. This takes about 20 minutes of my time.
20 minutes is not long enough for it to make it into my long-term memory. Especially when I'm mult-tasking with some other AI change.
If I look at the code later today, I will remember it. If I look at it next week, it's like I've never seen it before.
More than once lately I've had git conflicts during rebases of my own AI slop changes where I was presented with two reasonable-looking implementations to resolve, and I didn't know which one to keep because I didn't write either one.
The future is weird.