Ask HN: Has single-task focus become outdated in the AI era?

A Hacker News user asks whether single-task focus is outdated in the AI era, noting that AI makes parallel work easier but deep focus may still be more effective for quality work.

I’ve always found that deep focusing on one task at a time was the only way to get things done at work with good quality and at an acceptable pace, and I have a real hard time multitasking even with AI because of context switching and getting distracted or overwhelmed. But with AI making parallel work easier in theory , is single-task focus now a disadvantage? Are effective engineers always running several threads at once, or is deep focus still the best way to get things done? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48874344 Points: 1 Comments: 0