LLMs may have helped my RSI

For folks experiencing RSI, I recommend Talon voice and Cursorless extension. I experienced thumb pain that I kind of ignored for a while - look into prehab exercises before it becomes a concern since any aggravating motion could make it worse quickly.

I haven't read it yet but folks might benefit from this recent book, Body Electric: The Hidden Health Costs of the Digital Age and New Science to Reclaim Your Well-Being.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250411211/bodyelectric/

I thought I would share. I don't see this discussed much and thought it was interesting (it's my own post) when doing some introspection today. Is it from moving up in my career and I just type a little less? Has the movement from typing in a code editor all day to writing more prose helped? It's hard to say for sure, but a fun observation. :) I am curious if anyone else has experienced the same.

What helped my RSI:

- Using mouse less

- Ergonomic keyboard

- Learning to type better (I still suck, but speed is fast enough, and I don't get a soar neck or fingers from my previous glance at KB then back to monitor and smash keys)

- Positioning top of monitor to eye level

- Gradually transitioning from programming through rapid trial and error, to building and exploring logical models of programs in my head, then type out some code that usually works.

All my experiments and usage of AI if anything lead to more typing rather than less.

What helped my RSI was learning a new computer layout (dvorak in my case). It went away and has stayed gone for 25-ish years. Keeping bikeyboardal between qwerty and dvorak probably helps.

I recursively self-improve my shoe-tying powers every morning.

I could believe it. Honest to goodness, they might save my eyesight. No more marathon sessions staring at the screen for hours editing text.

If you set up speech to text like voxtype, you won't even have to type the prompt into the AI and can do your programming almost entirely by voice.

I don't have RSI, but I do this whenever my arms get tired to make sure I don't end up with it.

LLMs have indeed done wonders for recursive self-improvement. /s