I'm the Bottleneck
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Who knew wielding a great power will be so exhausting?

I really enjoy programming with AI agents. This is the closest I’ve ever come to having magical superpowers. Today’s AI is already smart, capable, resourceful and agentic enough to bring me joy.

This post is about the flip side of that: for most people I know, this fun turns into a death march. We have these powerful tools, but we feel more exhausted and overworked than ever. We ship more, but enjoy it less.

Source: https://frantic.im/bottleneck/

Sure thing you got disappointed - you chose not to train your mind, your confidence, your attitude… to stay self-sufficient and actually treasure achievements to be proud of. No. You chose to outsource, to depend, and to atrophy yourself and your history, where no names exist but tokens.

Congratulations. You damaged your own history.

  • Nordon
    31·
    4 hours ago

    You can read the code that it changed for starters. A lot of AI hate comes from not actually reviewing their work.

    2nd if it was a config issue. LLMs are fantastic at parsing an error log and tracking it back to a config issue. If it actually had to write code then it depends on if you actually read what it did.