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As much as I hate to admit it, using agents for too long makes me less able to think for myself. I am dedicating 30 mins to 1 hour everyday writing and thinking without LLMs.


> I am dedicating 30 mins to 1 hour everyday writing and thinking without LLMs.

Before you did this, was literally every hour of your waking time spend thinking about LLMs?

I don't think I could do that even if I tried, and I spend all my development hours with agents, but during meals, showers, walking the dogs, enjoying a coffee outside or whatever, naturally I get time to think about other stuff, sounds out of the ordinary (to me at least) to have to dedicate 1 hour to not think about something. Reminds me of when I was addicted to amphetamines way back when.


> Before you did this, was literally every hour of your waking time spend thinking about LLMs?

They said "writing and thinking without LLMs", not "not thinking about LLMs". I think they're talking about setting aside time for fairly focused thought/work.


Shouldn't it be the opposite? 1h max LLM per day?


Perhaps, but I'm not sure my boss would appreciate that though.




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