Using AI Left Me More Tired, Not Less: Ask HN Post Draws 85 Comments
A Hacker News post laid out the grind of reading AI's torrent of output and the toll of constant context switching. The author asked fellow users how to make it less exhausting.
A post has gone up describing how using AI actually left its author with more to keep track of. It appeared on October 30 (local time) on Hacker News’s question board, “Ask HN.” The author described the fatigue that came with using AI and asked other users for advice.
The author listed several sources of strain. First, there were simply more things to keep track of at once. Reading through the large volumes of text that AI generates was another. Also on the list: constantly reining the AI in so it doesn’t wander off course, and the endless decisions that have to be made along the way. Moving back and forth between multiple tasks, and shifting mental context in the process, was cited as another cause of fatigue.
The heart of the question was how to reduce that burden. The post drew a score of 93 and 85 comments.
What the author was looking for was a way of working that takes some of the effort out of the process. Which approaches actually cut down the effort spent on reading output and switching tasks is the question still to be answered.