When the world is complicated, entangled, and rapidly changing, would you expect there to be one centralized official guide?*

At the risk of sounding glib or paternalistic -- but I'm going to say it anyway, because once you "see it" it won't feel like a foreign idea being imposed on you -- there are ways that help to lower and even drop expectations.

How? To mention just one: good reading. Read "Be a new homunculus" [1]. To summarize, visualize yourself like you are the "thing that lives in your brain". Yes, this is non-sense but try it anyway.

If you find various ways to accept "the world is changing faster than ever before" and it feels like too much. Maybe you are pissed off or anxious about AI. Maybe AI is being "heavily encouraged" for you (on you?) at work. Maybe you feel like we're living in an unsustainable state of affairs -- don't deny it. Dig into that feeling, talk about it. See where it leads you. Burying these things isn't a viable long-term strategy.**

* There is an "awesome-*" GitHub repository for collecting recommended resources to help with Claude Code: [2] But still requires a lot of curation and end-user experimentation: [2] There are few easy answers in a dynamic uncertain world.

** Yes I'm intentionally cracking the door open to "Job loss is scary. It is time to get real on this, including political activism."

[1]: https://mindingourway.com/be-a-new-homunculus/

[2]: https://github.com/hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code

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rr808 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Thanks yes of course you're right, still frustrating. I'm nearing retirement so not really worried about job loss, just want to make use of the tools.

	▲	xpe 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I get that. I probably could have been much more succinct by saying this: We can consciously act in ways that reduce the frustration level even if the environment itself doesn't change. It usually takes time and patience, but not always. Sometimes a particular mindset shift is sufficient to make a frustration completely vanish almost immediately. Some examples from my experience: (1) Many particular frustrations with LLMs vanish the more I learn about their internals. (2) Frustration with the cacophony of various RAG/graph-database tooling vanishes once I realize that there is an entire slice of VC money chasing these problems precisely because it is uncertain: the victors are not pre-ordained and ... [insert bad joke about vectors here]