| ▲ | lebek 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> Then human work is changed to figuring out new things and the AI solves all old things, that seems much more fun than most white collar work today. But it's not fun to be figuring out new things all the time. Some amount of routine work is necessary to 1) exercise mastery (feels good), and 2) recover energy. This is why a lot of people find agentic coding exhausting and less fun, you're basically always having to be creative (what's the next feature?) or solve the hardest 5% of issues the LLM can't handle. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | embedding-shape 3 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> you're basically always having to be creative (what's the next feature?) or solve the hardest 5% of issues the LLM can't handle. Maybe I'm wired differently, but this is fun to me, and "exercising mastery" by doing routine work is almost never fun, things stop being fun and feel good once I've "mastered" them, and I can't say I've ever "recovered energy" by doing routine work, it seems to suck energy out of me faster than anything. To recover, I tend to rest and do anything but work. But again, maybe it's just weird wiring. | |||||||||||||||||
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