# Ask HN: Does your mind drift while waiting for AI prompts to finish? > Source: > Published: 2026-06-17 10:37:09+00:00 | |||||||||||| 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 ? | ||||||||||| |