Agreed, there's a couple of bad behavioral shifts I noted for me when doing agentic coding:
- Doing too much at the same time, it is super exhausting, and I get nervous and stressed
- Sycophancy makes me overestimate myself
- When my stress meets external pressure, quality goes down. The little voice of 'surely the AI got it right' can lead to defects and code quality going down.
Except for doing some manual coding, I've started doing a couple of other things that are probably just healthy regardless of using AI heavily in day to day life:
- Do literally nothing for at least half an hour. Read something written by humans, even better if it is fiction.
- Do something that makes you feel stupid. And don't use AI to help you through it. (That could be Leetcode, but for me it is learning about statistics)
- Slow down when you feel like things are moving too fast. By far the hardest thing, but the moment I realize I'm trying to rush for a deadline, I'm going out for a walk. Realistically, I'm moving 3-8x faster than before, this little delay is nothing, and keeps me sane and quality on a good level.
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Agreed, there's a couple of bad behavioral shifts I noted for me when doing agentic coding:
- Doing too much at the same time, it is super exhausting, and I get nervous and stressed
- Sycophancy makes me overestimate myself
- When my stress meets external pressure, quality goes down. The little voice of 'surely the AI got it right' can lead to defects and code quality going down.
Except for doing some manual coding, I've started doing a couple of other things that are probably just healthy regardless of using AI heavily in day to day life:
- Do literally nothing for at least half an hour. Read something written by humans, even better if it is fiction.
- Do something that makes you feel stupid. And don't use AI to help you through it. (That could be Leetcode, but for me it is learning about statistics)
- Slow down when you feel like things are moving too fast. By far the hardest thing, but the moment I realize I'm trying to rush for a deadline, I'm going out for a walk. Realistically, I'm moving 3-8x faster than before, this little delay is nothing, and keeps me sane and quality on a good level.