{"slug": "ask-hn-does-your-mind-drift-while-waiting-for-ai-prompts-to-finish", "title": "Ask HN: Does your mind drift while waiting for AI prompts to finish?", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nI'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 ? | |||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-does-your-mind-drift-while-waiting-for-ai-prompts-to-finish", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568372", "published_at": "2026-06-17 10:37:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-17 10:52:45.951524+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-does-your-mind-drift-while-waiting-for-ai-prompts-to-finish", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-does-your-mind-drift-while-waiting-for-ai-prompts-to-finish.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-does-your-mind-drift-while-waiting-for-ai-prompts-to-finish.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-does-your-mind-drift-while-waiting-for-ai-prompts-to-finish.jsonld"}}