Re:Interruptions cost 23 minutes 15 seconds, right?
by Dilettante_ on Sunday August 24, 2025 @05:50AM
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>A question that requires some thinking has a huge cost [...] It's not about the interaction [...], it's about the topic.
For me personally, every interaction with another person requires booting up "Human Mode™", which invariably pushes out any concentration I had on the task-at-hand.
However I think that in both cases, if the interruption happens while coding, the risk of bug is about the same.