The cost of AI-assisted development: cognitive fatigue
The hidden cost of AI-assisted development: cognitive fatigue After three months of AI-assisted development, I’m more productive than ever. I’m also mentally exhausted in ways I didn’t expect. The productivity gains are real—I can go from sketch to working prototype in hours instead of days.
- ▪The hidden cost of AI-assisted development: cognitive fatigue After three months of AI-assisted development, I’m more productive than ever.
- ▪I’m also mentally exhausted in ways I didn’t expect.
- ▪The productivity gains are real—I can go from sketch to working prototype in hours instead of days.
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The hidden cost of AI-assisted development: cognitive fatigue After three months of AI-assisted development, I’m more productive than ever. I’m also mentally exhausted in ways I didn’t expect. The productivity gains are real—I can go from sketch to working prototype in hours instead of days. But there’s a hidden cost that we’re not talking about: the tools fundamentally change the cognitive load of programming. Instead of being tired from wrestling with implementation details, I’m exhausted from operating constantly at the architecture and design level. It turns out that having a tireless coding partner creates its own kind of burnout.
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