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davedxtoday at 9:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

"I have so many half-baked ideas for tools or services I barely need, sparked by a combo of unaddressed workaholism and techno-optimist wishful thinking."

This part resonates. AI has been such an accelerator that just yesterday I told Claude to make a brand new "Christian male meal planner with grace quotes from the Bible", bought a domain name, had the whole thing ready to go then thought "wtf am I doing, I already have half a dozen other side projects in the go, this is insane!" and just stopped it.

Human focus is a precious, finite resource. The productivity boom enabled by AI tools is probably going to benefit those capable of laser-like focus the most. Scattered thinkers (like myself, or perhaps the original article author) are in for a struggle at times.


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high_priesttoday at 9:28 AM

Brother was so close to winning big, then just stopped digging, when one could smell the success.

antonvstoday at 10:03 AM

> wtf am I doing

Some part of you realized that Bronze Age superstitions aren’t worth that kind of effort.

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