this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
239 points (85.7% liked)

Technology

84478 readers
3688 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
239
Spending Just 10 Minutes With AI Can Fry Your Brain, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
submitted 2 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
111 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If I use AI for my personal coding projects I've found that if the task is unsolvable by the ai model, I'm not able to sit down and do it myself until the next day. It's like I've got to reset my brain.

If I want to save time and use AI for a specific part of the code, it probably saves me 5 hours of work. But then I spend five hours yelling at the ai to try to get it to actually solve it. Next day I'll just fix it myself in 2 hours.

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

But what you're describing is not that uncommon, even without AI: Oftentimes when trying to solve a complex problem and being unsuccessful you have to reset your brain by doing something fundamentally different or have a good night of sleep and after that you solve the problem easily.

May what you're experiencing is not AI related at all.

[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You're probably right, but I think it's made worse by AI. Jumping into the code after 3 hours with Claude doing the dirty work feels like an impossibility

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That sounds a lot like what the studies show. And IMO that sounds like a serious problem.

[–] NeilNuggetstrong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I'm really just tricking my brain to think I'm being more productive lmao.

But then again, some of the stuff I'm working on is in principle quite easy to do, but is also outside of my skillet, for these cases I benefit from using AI.

IMO the challenge is knowing how and when to use AI. Small companies using AI correctly can probably benefit massively from it. Although it's risky