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by colingauvin12 hours ago |
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upvoteby sm27 hours ago|
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Serious question - have you tried applying AI tools to more of your job, and in a goal-seeking fashion? Have you hit roadblocks?
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upvoteby colingauvin5 hours ago|
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Yes, and it's relatively good for on-rails data collection and data processing pipelines that would have previously needed occasional human intervention. Especially now that I can run something like DeepSeek v4 Flash on a couple of RTX 6000s and just script an API to hammer away without having to worry about racking up a huge bill.
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upvoteby iririririr11 hours ago|
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do you feel this is the same trade off of UI builders like android studio (or msvb6). you do in minutes what you previously did in 2, 3 hours.

is it all the work? no, but it's a part that's early on and have high perceived impact.

then, as you progress, that tool actually gets in the way and a new feature that would take 2 hours, now is around 2 days.

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upvoteby colingauvin10 hours ago|
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In some ways, but it's tough to say if that's my ADHD or not. It's far too easy to leave one branch of reasoning now and jump to another whenever progress gets difficult.

Though in some areas where I can sustain interest, AI is helping me go deeper. For instance, I've been putting myself to sleep at night by just asking it questions about expectation maximization and Bayesian statistics. This has seriously boosted my understanding of cryo-EM alignment algorithms in a way I couldn't do in grad school because there was no professor that understood enough to help me when I got stuck reading literature.

So it's a double edged sword for sure.

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upvoteby calvinmorrison7 hours ago|
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> In some ways, but it's tough to say if that's my ADHD or not. It's far too easy to leave one branch of reasoning now and jump to another whenever progress gets difficult.

I have a co-worker who doesnt feel like ADHD helps him because he sits down and just starts... doing work and typing. Assign him a complex task, he will just start on it. Mind blowing he does this day in and day out. an absolute machine.

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