Yishan argues AI coding shifts developer workloads to high-stakes decision-making, increasing cognitive load and risk of rapid burnout · Digg

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Yishan argues AI coding shifts developer workloads to high-stakes decision-making, increasing cognitive load and risk of rapid burnout

Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon endorsed this high-stress workflow analysis

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Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon endorsed this high-stress workflow analysis

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asymmetric value@asymmetricvalTECH

@yishan Extremely well-said. You encapsulated a concept that is very difficult to describe accurately.

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Martin Reiter@martin_reiterTECH

@yishan just so true

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@yishan Yo stop giving people this advice. It is extremely important most get it too late.

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@beffjezos Nothing has actual real value now lmao 🤣

Zy@ZyMazzaTECH

@yishan important idea

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@yishan correct

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This is what happens when you become a CEO, the "cognitive load time density" goes way up: when every lower-level task is done by some[thing] else, all that remain are the high-level tasks. The stakes are higher, data is incomplete, and the options are ambiguous. Most people are not equipped for this. There's a reason CEOs all have these crazy exercise and meditation lifestyles: they are optimized to provide a physical and therapeutic base to allow for sustained cognitive output and decision-making willpower. Someone who wants to move to the next stage of productivity through vibecoding without burning out within a few months will need to re-engineer their life. (Remember: it's only been a few months since the models became good enough to code! It happened in ~December!)

Jordan Schneider@jordanschneiderTECH

real. and now at least we get these breaks where the models work on their own for a while so you can chill if you're not doing too many at once https://twitter.com/yishan/status/2074685075724316743

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