AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder

Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by corytheboyd on Monday August 04, 2025 @01:02PM (#44788549)

> The promise of "parallelism" is overstated.

100% my takeaway after trying to parallelize using worktrees. While Claude has no problem managing more than one context instance, I sure as hell do. It’s exhausting, to the point of slowing me down.

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by vouaobrasil on Monday August 04, 2025 @01:38PM (#44789043)

That's an intended effect. It doesn't matter to those in power who know what AI is really for. Once you get so exhausted that you can't work any more, there will be a hundred bright-eyed naïve programmers who will step into your place and who think they can do better. Until they burn out in a few years time.

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by corytheboyd on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:16PM (#44790224)

I have been wondering when I would start to feel aged out of the tech industry… gosh is it here already?

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Re:AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder by vouaobrasil on Monday August 04, 2025 @03:24PM (#44790327)

I don't know if it is but I'm certainly glad I left tech a long time ago...

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