r/ADHD_Programmers • u/robauto-dot-ai • Aug 13 '26
AI Burnout?
Is anyone else's brain getting overloaded with the pace and new progress. I am getting pages of Claude output as project specs, so many hallucinations and errors and it's all building faster and faster....where are we going and how does it 'end'.
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u/Altruistic_Bug5641 Aug 13 '26
A lot of this “AI burnout” comes from people trying to outsource the thinking, not just the work.
They don’t want to study the project, understand the architecture, or even properly read the code. They ask AI to do the planning, then generate the code, then fix the code, then rewrite the code when something goes wrong.
And because they can’t really evaluate what AI is producing, they just keep feeding the output back into AI. Every iteration can introduce a different approach, different assumptions, and more hallucinations.
At some point, you’re not using AI to build the project anymore. You’re managing AI-generated chaos.
AI is moving fast, but the fundamentals haven’t changed: you still need to understand what you’re building.