I notice I am doing more work as well but enjoying it and taking more time to recharge. I stopped listening to podcasts and audio books while working because before, my linguistic brain had time to linger while puzzling. Now I’m reading and writing letters and memos all day in addition to that other puzzle solving mode. No mental bandwidth for those extra things.

And multitasking is easier with ai. Have a lead agent keep track of your work. With a real task tool. I can drive several projects at once. I finally (have an agent) keep my work journal updated.

I do miss raw coding sometimes. But if I am honest most of what I did was filling in boilerplate code that was not really new or interesting. The real thinking was not the code itself. The code was a means.

I used to worry about who will learn coding anymore but seeing how I can push into new types of systems now, my worry is reduced. Kids will just have really awesome assistants who can explain it all in the way they prefer.