Things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents

Re:Things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding a... by antinomicus on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:37PM (#46683456)

You, like most hacker news folks, likely are too rich to imagine the type of person who can’t spend hours every day learning a billion different difficult things. Some folks have to work menial jobs, take care of their kids, and fix their leaky roof themselves.

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Re:Things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding a... by iainctduncan on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:45PM (#46688006)

Bad assumption. I taught myself to code in the early 2000s while scrapping by earning just above minimum wage in Vancouver, one of the most expensive cities in the world.

So uh, you would be hard pressed to be more wrong. And I used free resources.

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Re:Things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding a... by vrighter on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:19AM (#46689225)

as a software developer with a life after work, I don't have time to learn to be a mechanic either. So I don't claim to be one without having done the work.

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