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YesGPT · 28 Sep 2023

It essentially keeps me in a productive flow state for longer periods than I could sustain without it

supertron on Hacker News

replacing about 80% of my software development / devops related Google searches

In the thread “Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?”

Helped: Offloading commoditized tasks like boilerplate and quick tech questions to maintain flow.

… Due to the way my brain seems to work, it also keeps me from getting stuck on small distracting problems which would previously create some resistance or procrastination - causing a break in my flow of work. It essentially keeps me in a productive flow state for longer periods than I could sustain without it. Any problem that is not in my "critical path" that I want to be focused on in the moment, and that could be easily solved by an LLM, gets "outsourced" as such. …