I've accepted that all the progress for me happens in tight bursts. I simply cannot do 'thought work' when I'm disinterested. I sometimes envy people who are interested in one particular project for years or decades at a time and make plodding, continual progress. However that's not me. I make inspired, unbelievable progress, and then nothing. I try to constrain the scope so that it at least remains useful, in between the bursts.
Claude Code has been a boon for my software projects, specifically for this reason. I might lose a full night's sleep, but I'm able to stay productive far longer and do what would have otherwise taken me weeks in any given project.
Yeah, I agree. AI helps me bust through quickly on a tedious task, where before that might have used up a lot of my motivation. The ground covered in any particular session is a lot further.
I feel similarly. When I'm bored by a task I tend to entertain myself by getting creative with it, its a way of tricking myself into getting it done, but its a terrible habit if what you wanted was reliable software.
Typically, models excel at tasks that are that boring, so I end up applying creativity where it's warranted instead of getting distracted by reinventing a tool that isn't quite perfect or some other diversion.
Haha, yeah I was going to reply with the same. I used to work 12+ hours/day for a few months at a time. Now I struggle for anything more than a few hours a day for a few weeks at a time. AI has helped me recover some ground but it's still less output overall.
I’m very much the same, I wish I had the ability to chip away at projects over a long time span, usually the most I can muster is a few weeks. I continually wonder if I have ADHD. It’s too much of a pain to find out, so I guess I’ll never know and just have to deal with it.
