> == Why not slow down? > > Why does it have to be frenetic? Why not just slow down? I suppose you //could//, but I don’t recommend it. **It’s just such a miserable experience to spend your day close-reading LLM output**: carefully chewing and savoring each morsel of slop. It’s far less unpleasant to skim through quickly and pick out the useful nuggets of content. > > Couldn’t you simply do more of the work by hand? It’s unfortunately true that [[https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-times-are-over/ | tech is high-pressure these days]]. If you’ve got the time and space to work more slowly, that’s great! But when your company gives you a “solve this task ten times more quickly” button, you are heavily incentivized to use it as much as possible, or risk being outcompeted by your peers. Damn...