This much context switching can't be good for us
I’ve found that with AI, I’m constantly context-switching. As I’m writing this, I’m working on two other side projects.
Well not exactly “working” actively, but more like prompting, reviewing, and testing. LLMs have been amazing in letting us work on so many things at once. What previously would take me around a month of learning, experimenting, and failing now takes me an evening perhaps. In the past week, I got an app on the App Store, and I haven’t written Swift in the past 6 years or so.
But I don’t think this context switching is great for me. Sometimes at night, I get stuck in a “reels loop” when I can’t sleep: I surf between TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube in the hopes of finding something entertaining to watch and fall off asleep to. But these apps are built in a way, that if I don’t realize it, I’d end up spending the entire night on them.
Am I doing the same thing, but with my AI tools and side projects now?
PS: It’s kind of funny. Right after typing this out, I accidentally put in a wrong prompt that was meant for another project. That really messed up my flow state.