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I'm Done Using AI

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2 hours ago

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I think I'm done using LLMs altogether for coding. I've lost the ability to maintain any kind of flow state, the majority of the time I've spent thrashing on architectural changes that I could have done myself, tests that get manipulated into passing, and having to sift through the magic 8-ball of skills that are intended to get work done (all caps dont do this, please do that). LLMs appear to be fruitful as essentially a research search engine but I'm pretty much done with them for coding. This has been an enormously expensive waste of time and to add to it a general atrophy of skill.

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moritzschultz

32 minutes ago

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Share your POV about the flow state. I lost that too, but found myself a few days ago sitting in front of Claude prompting until 5am in the morning. The flow is different, less satisfactory for sure than writing code yourself.

Main reason I am sticking to using AI is convenience, speed and the perception that the job market expects you to.

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vifly_net

1 hour ago

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but why, can you give more details