Coding Fatigue

There’s a bunch of articles going around about AI burnout and how this New World of Claude may not be all it’s cracked up to be, which is mostly summed up by this skeet from Camille Fournier, about a manager’s lot:

The part of "everyone becomes a manager" in AI that I didn't really think about until now was the mental fatigue of context switching and keeping many tasks going at once, which of course is one of the hardest parts of being a manager and now you all get to enjoy it too

— Camille Fournier (@skamille.themanagerswrath.com) February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM

This week, I have run 25 experiments, all trying to both replicate and improve upon one particular embedding paper, sometimes staying up beyond 11pm to get the most recent results and kick off my next idea, have designed a tvOS app that’ll work with my local NAS and an NFC reader in an attempt to reduce the slop that Maeryn is exposed to (the debasement of “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt” on YouTube is what pushed me towards this), and have already formulated new model training plans that will likely take up the rest of February. On top of actual work, and you know, spending time with Tammy and Maeryn. I still haven’t put the earlier projects I did anywhere near deployment, as there’s always something else to be tinkering with.

Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i should be doing something, always

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— Tim Kellogg (@timkellogg.me) February 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM

(the important thing is that I am not quite at this point, though I will say I did make time this morning to kick off a new run of a refactored LEAF trainline pipeline this morning while I was having breakfast. But you’ll pry my books from my cold dead hands)

Anyway, aside from a few mountains dotted around here and there, the snow is mostly gone. The solar panels have stopped complaining and started producing power again. Now I just need to see if the retaining wall got damaged even further under the weight of all the snow…but it’s basically beyond salvaging, so I don’t think it’ll really matter in the grand scheme of things.

In-between starting this post and finishing it, the first skeet has become a flashpoint for anti-AI quotes, and even one of my ex-bosses became the main character on BlueSky for a good hour or two. It’s incredibly annoying as I watch people share blatant lies and slip into 9/11 conspiracies, or just infuriating when I read an article about When The Wind Blows that dismisses the characters’ memories about the Blitz as lying to themselves. I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but it does; I have read retelling after retelling of people’s time during WWII…and yes, quite a lot of them had thrilling times. Ignorant Americans trying to rewrite history that isn’t even their own. No, this doesn’t have anything to do with AI per se, just that the people that apparently can’t even read and understand sarcasm also have a tendency to share those things. As well as getting deeper and deeper into a conspiracy mindset that feels like it is going to end up re-inventing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion but from a leftist perspective.

And now I should probably stop subtweeting half of the internet and go to bed.