Readit NewsI can throw away all my worldly possessions and post up in a cardboard box. My old bosses would still probably expect me to respond at 8pm to a message. Giving me a company phone if necessary.
It's very well supported that efficiencies have gone up in the workforce over the decades, but hours worked have also increased. We're being squeezed.
[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/front
That's why I tend to search top in the last day and week. Specifically to catch flagged articles like this, since at least the votes don't get undone.
So what's the problem here?
It's still important to call them out for all the onlookers, but he goal in suc discussions should not be to try and convince the other party in these cases. They at best don't care and are going all on vibes, and at worst knowingly contradict because their goal is also onlookers.
> The Hacker News front page alone is enough to give you whiplash. One day it's "Show HN: Autonomous Research Swarm" and the next it's "Ask HN: How will AI swarms coordinate?" Nobody knows. Everyone's building anyway.
These posts got less than 5 upvotes, they didn't make it to home page. And while overall quality of Show HN might have dropped, HN homepage is still quite sane.
The topic is also not something "nobody talks about," it's being discussed even before agentic tools became available: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=AI+fatigue
top 24 hours is a better way to get sentiment. Here's the top 5 for today (not including this post at #2)
> DoNotNotify is now Open Source
> I am happier writing code by hand
> Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
> Slop Terrifies Me
> Vouch
real shame, we just missed the politics post at #7.
But yeah improving build speed & parallel running I think are one of the biggest advances devs can do to speed up development time in the AI age. With native apps that can be a challenge. I restructured a react native project to make it faster to iterate, but I have a feeling you might not be fond of rn.
With all due respect, the commment does carry the vibes of "it's okay I can totally multitask" that's nearly a cliche in programming. It just feels a bit insensitive to respond to an article talking about context switching being a big problem with LLMs and then suggest the biggest possible context switch of managing multiple workstations.
And yes, your hardware expenditure will vary per industry. I can barely run one instance of Unreal Engine as is.
Never used headphones - if the environment is too loud, make it quieter. I once moved into a new office area that had a dot-matrix printer that "logged", in the worst sense of the word (how could you find any access on such a giant printout), every door open/close in the block. It was beyond annoying (ever heard a DM printer? only thing worse is a daisy wheel) so I simply unplugged it, took out the ink ribbon and twisted off the print head. It was never replaced, because as is very often the case nobody ever used the "reports" it produced.
>if the environment is too loud, make it quieter.
we shifted to open office setups over the decades. There may not even be anyway to make things "quieter" externally.