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NoTool not named · 21 Feb 2026

I'm confident I'm less productive because of the secondary effects

packetlost on Hacker News

20% of mental effort and 5% of my actual work

In the thread “A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong”, replying to this comment

Helped: Saving mental effort on boring, non-innovative tasks.

Got in the way: Hardcoded tags, missing docs, broken deployment strategies.

… I'm not even going to get started on the context switching costs. It makes my ADHD feel happy but I'm confident I'm less productive because of the secondary effects.