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No direct answer, but I’ve personally noticed that having seasons makes a big difference here. After spending the past year on the East Coast with all of the different seasons, I certainly felt like time was going slower and looking back. It is pretty clear cut in my brain as to how much I did during that time.

That’s in contrast to where I normally live, which is southern California where you basically just go between Summer and Winter Lite which does seem to make the time pass quicker and lead to more routine living. I’ve often speculated with my friends around here about how there is a “Paradise Effect” of living here with both how people live their lives, as well as with how we perceive time.

I canceled my plan today and wrote my reason as: now that I have a job again I don’t have the time or needs for the pro plan. If there was a $5 a month option, I would gladly take it to make use of Opus for my rare side ideas.

> At which point you now have to do it yourself, but you know the codebase less well than if you'd hand written it.

Appreciate you saying this because it is my biggest gripe in these conversations. Even if it makes me faster I now have to put time into reading the code multiple times because I have to internalize it.

Since the code I merge into production "is still my responsibility" as the HN comments go, then I need to really read and think more deeply about what AI wrote as opposed to reading a teammate's PR code. In my case that is slower than the 20% speedup I get by applying AI to problems.

I'm sure I can get even more speed if I improve prompts, when I use the AI, agentic vs non-agentic, etc. but I just don't think the ceiling is high enough yet. Plus I am someone who seems more prone to AI making me lazier than others so I just need to schedule when I use it and make that time as minimal as possible.

This was a great refresher on things I’ve seen writings of but never thought deeply about. A lot of it already “made sense” yet in my day to day I’m still doing the bad versions of the prompts.

Do you have preference n a more continual system like Claude Code for one big prompt or just trying to do one task and starting something new?

This was such a nice write up that highlighted what I’ve seen in so many “First $X MMR” essays that were too long. Thanks for sticking to the points with short examples.

Wishing you the best!

I'm curious how clean is your handwriting? I just did a test run with Claude (pro plan) and it could not understand my iPad + iPencil notes. I expected this since they are close to chicken scratch. ChatGPT told me "I ran OCR on your notes, but the handwriting/scan quality makes the transcription pretty rough—lots of words are garbled."

Then I tried a handwritten note that was some of my average handwriting and it did okay-ish. I think it would be acceptable to use if I also store the original note image with the transcribed text and for basic searching.

I agree with you I prefer writing physically but need a system for digitizing.

I agree with your comment as an additional way to look at the problem but want to also mention something I heard on a podcast a few months ago.

Paraphrasing "If you get good at seeing red flags it doesn't make you good at seeing green ones. When you optimize against failure you don't optimize for success. So on and so forth."

A failed founder can tell you what broke but won't know what else could've gone wrong or rather what else they needed to go right.

No longer employed but from my past year's experience I became disillusioned with it. I think it maybe made me 20% faster? That's being generous but it could have been higher if I was really really diligent about when to use it. But like most dopamine rewarding technologies it became really easy to either just get lost in it or go through periods of not caring to use it at all because it kept giving back garbage.

Things change fast and the tech got way better as I moved from CoPilot to Cursor to finally Claude Code. But at the end of the day the amount that I understood the code I was producing versus how much I was writing was not worth it.

People talk a lot about "what you merge to production is still your code" and I agree with that. To that point whether its a shared experience or just how I'm wired I would need to put way more time in to trying to deeply understand the code than the time it took to write a great prompt that Claude could follow correctly.

We already had a script for boilerplate writing and honestly boilerplate is kinda fun to write sometimes if you have a nice keyboard. The annoying boilerplate is the more nitty gritty stuff like error handling in Go. So I guess I still support the AI tab, that's pretty nice.

I felt myself becoming "dumber" and my productivity increase wasn't worth it. Same reason I stay off TikTok and Instagram even though they sometimes have interesting reels that are actually informative.

This comment made me rethink what I have that is actually valuable data. My photos alone even if culled down to just my favorites would probably be at least a few gigs. Contacts from my phone would be small. Other than that I guess I wouldn't be devastated if I lost anything else. Probably should put my recovery keys somewhere safer but honestly the accounts most important to me don't have recovery keys.

Curious what you consider valuable data?

Edit: I should say for pictues I have around 2Tb right now (downside of being a hobby photographer)