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Ask HN: Does your mind drift while waiting for AI prompts to finish?

A software engineer with 9 years of experience reports experiencing mind drift and cognitive overload while waiting for AI prompts to finish, leading to fatigue and distraction. The engineer describes a workflow where after sending a prompt, they switch to other apps and struggle to maintain focus, especially when the AI output requires supervision.

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| |||||||||||| 1 point by | I've been a software engineer for 9 years now, and I noticed a very new weirdness in my workflows. Once I finish the architecture of a project and i have my context engineering prompt ready, I hit SEND, and then is just void lol. I have realized that between that time of waiting till AI is done, my mind drifts, I go use other apps, search random stuff and if AI fucks things up I go back and forth supervising it. I feel like this whole experience has generated some kind of fatigue and comes with a lot of cognitive overload. Do you folks face that too? How is it affecting you ? | ||||||||||| |

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