Seeing a lot of the same thing has helped me understand how people are getting the claimed 10x productivity.
reply> I have below average prompt frequency because I know crazy shit like #!/bin/bash and ps aux. It's so goddamn insane.
replyI think AI made everyone so dumb that I'm a 10x engineer now.
I tried hard to tokenmaxx one month and couldn’t do it as for most tasks, I’ve already figured out the solution while reading the ticket and vim/emacs-fu is more enjoyable than prompting and waiting. And for other tasks, I just knew the technology to do something with the least amount of effort.
reply> vim/emacs-fu is more enjoyable than prompting and waiting.
replyI couldn't agree more. These AI users go on and on about "tooling" but would never take a week to learn how to use vim. These people are addicts. Don't take their words at face value. They are dependent on AI code generation.
To be fair, I've been wanting to move to vim or emacs for a while now, but I've customized and gotten used to my current editor so much that it doesn't feel like a week's task.
replyJust do it.
replyAI chatbots, like social media, condition you to become addicted to short-timescale intermittent reinforcement.
You need to break out of the dopamine spell and do something hard.