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Comment · 1 day ago

I went through a period of feeling very tired. For me two things helped:

1. Being okay with being "less" productive. I'm probably still 10x more productive than I was in the pre-AI era, but in the early days of AI I would have eight Claude sessions running. Now it's two or three and I take more advantage of the free time I have between Claude assignments. My bosses are still happy with my output and I'm not being burnt out.

2. Very personal, but building my own tooling really helped. I built https://smalldocs.org / https://github.com/espressoplease/smalldocs (a document creator for AI agents) which allows me to take a lot of work outside of a chat history. E.g. I might make 10 MRs and then say "smalldoc me a list of the MRs" and I have that in my library, or if I'm considering various architectures I'll ask "smalldoc me a simple overview of the three architectures with mermaid diagrams" and then I can review the agent's thinking in a cleaner way.

Comment · 3 days ago

I think alignment is the missing part of this post.

Creating something visually interesting Invisible-Cities-ish is basically a task with a billion or more satisfactory outcomes. You don't have a precise view on what makes an invisible city a good one as long as it has all the fancy looking bells and whistles. This means the AI can generate a bunch of tokens which as long as they technically work (which it seems the max-thinking did not fully) produce a "good" result. This makes you think - wow AI is impressive. However if many things in the system really mattered, it might have been much less successful as the AI may have made poor assumptions. This was basically a task that given a large volume of tokens and technical competence it's fairly easy for the AI to do a good job at because we don't evaluate it with any depth/precision. I think the same is true for music, where there are basically an infinite number of combinations of sounds, beats, melodies, etc. which are pleasant to hear - and songs aren't mission critical - so alignment is not a big issue. Generative AI is good at these tasks.

Comment · 11 days ago

I built and use https://smalldocs.org, which is a rich document format (mermaid diagrams, nice formatting, etc.) for agents. So I’ll be like “sdoc me the architectural ideas for this feature” and it helps.

Comment · 20 days ago

I think this is an interesting way to explore a possible future. Cool to see. Ty

Comment · 1 month ago

API pricing?

Comment · 1 month ago

I have a 30 min cycle of polling yahoo finance every 2s, one per share/index every 2 sec if that makes sense

Comment · 1 month ago

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah agree re that. Will update soon.

Comment · 1 month ago

Back online

Comment · 1 month ago

Thanks, resolving!

Comment · 1 month ago

What does that mean?

Comment · 1 month ago

Thanks

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Comment · 1 month ago

> it takes months, years even, to notice the effects of bad architecture or of unmaintainable code.

I think this is a bad take... if you are going that long without noticing, you are (hopefully) delivering end user value all that time. That is the main driver of code. You can normally dig/hack/rearchitect your way out of an ugly code situation. If you've been building value for the last year based on the hacky code, that's a win.

Comment · 1 month ago

I have leaned heavily into it… and became good at “agentic thinking”, but now I’m going to reverse. I have become dumber, sloppier, lazier, more distracted. I’m less happy than before. It’s hard to escape the productivity addiction and expectations though.

Comment · 1 month ago

I felt the same when reading