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Your claims about Putin are just as good as mine.

I followed the instructions for a few months and it fixed it. I went back and sent the biggest thanks to the responder. I did not expect to get any help from a random forum.

There has to be swathes of kids struggling with "embarrassing" (in quotes, because they actually aren't embarrassing at all) issues like this. I hope today's internet can provide help to the ones that have nobody to discuss them with.

I find the title not very well thought through, because smelling your own farts is unlikely to lead to change.

Definitely avoid any social media, youtube, etc. I'd suggest to limit your screen usage to just your work-life. You do not want to compare yourself with people who are not in your position. Spending time on the internet is not fulfulling.

Once you have a healthy daily routine down (which you might have already), a lifehack is to challenge yourself to get good at something that you would never have imagined yourself doing. The idea is that you will fill your head with thoughts about how to improve, rather than thinking about other things which might be too much to process right now. This is why the "start lifting" suggestions work. You don't have to lift, but simply set some random goal. Avoid trying to achieve some big ambition that you've always had.

Once you're on this path, with time you will recalibrate. It seems you are a social person and I bet you will find other people to connect with.

From my own experience, switching from a remote job to an in-office job helped when I felt too isolated. The job market is tough (from what I've heard), so you can check if you could join a coworking space or simply go to the local library to work. I've had friends that are happy to just work together in the same space.

The point of my response is not to tell you "how to be alone", but helpful advice if you want to make changes to your life, if you are unsatisfied with it. If you are unhappy, you could fill all your time thinking about how unhappy you are. It's not helpful, though. For now, find ways to fill your time, and while you do that, I truly believe you will find your footing again.

There will be more code with lower quality. If you want to be valued for your expertise, you need to find niches where quality has to stay high. In a lot of the SaaS-world, most products do not require perfection, so more slop is acceptable.

Or you can accept the slop, grind out however more years you need to retire, and in the meanwhile find some new passion.

What's the best tooling for using voice+LLMs (e.g. Claude Code)? Best tools to do regular coding?

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I have started to try out AI a lot more for a few months, using it for almost everything. How many PRs in January so far? 4. Even when I have had slumps in the past, I have not performed this bad.

I think was having fun before and not anymore. It doesn’t help that I have to review AI-generated PRs now. It doesn’t seem like a serious job for adults anymore and I feel a bit mentally drained.

What are your stats?

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I'm not up-to-date enough on the latest and greatest, so please share :).

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I've taken mental health leave (not due to a PIP) and my productivity before and after was significantly different. It was great for my employer that I took it. I'm quite sure I would've eventually ended up with a PIP if I hadn't taken it sooner myself, and the best remedy on a PIP would have been to take mental health leave. Not as a strategy as such, but literally because it would have been the best solution (and I think the only one).

Someone voiced that they liked a certain tool for a certain feature and suddenly we are judging them for it? I like that people share their thoughts and opinions.

You don't have to stop loving a project just because you're not ready to put in the work that the maintainers expect you to put in.

When I open a PR without discussing it at all beforehand with anyone, I expect the default to be that it gets rejected. It's fine by me, because it's simply easier for me to open a PR and have it be rejected than to find the people I need to talk to and then get them all onboard. I accounted for that risk when I chose the path I took.

  1. only using AI for small things, very impressed by it
  2. giving AI bigger tasks and figuring out how to use it well for those bigger tasks
  3. full-agentic mode where AI just does its thing and I review the code at the end
  4. realising that I still need to think through all the code and that AI is not the shortcut I was hoping it to be (e.g. where I can give it a high-level plan and be reasonably satisfied with the final code)
  5. going back to giving AI small tasks

Big-picture coding is in my hands, but AI is good at filling in the logic for functions and helping out with other small things.

Today I'd honestly suggest to skip learning about git altogether (besides the basics, like branching, staging etc) and just start using lazygit immediately.

I've seen people claim that having a clean git commit history is not worth the time, it takes too long to have it nice etc, opting to just stuff their refactor, renaming and new feature changes into one commit. With lazygit I spend a few extra minutes a day to make it nice and I've gotten compliments for it from others when they review my PRs, because it makes the review much easier.

The big issue is that I'm not very good at moderating my intake. I'm a crack addict for information and one small dose will turn into a bender.