Just one more prompt
Before AI, it was easier to stop working at, let's say, 5 PM, and live your personal life, because it took real focus and effort to develop anything. Now with AI, it's so easy to ship stuff that my free time gets constantly interrupted. Just one more prompt, one more feature, just a quick look to see how it is progressing.
We, passionate developers, have always liked to code and ship cool stuff. AI skyrocketed that to a crazy level. Shipping is so effortless now that I've got this itch to keep interacting with it. At the same time, these micro efforts build up to so many interruptions of my free time that it's not healthy.
I honestly don't know what the solution is. And I'm not saying it's completely bad, because I really love what I'm capable of doing now. It's kind of a mixed feeling between "I can do so much stuff" and "Oh my god, what am I doing to my personal life?".
Do you feel the same way? Have you found a way to improve this balance?