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What is mindlessly coding and how does that work? Seems like the author is dismissive of meetings and some coding tasks. reply reply reply If I could turn the first type of work over to an AI assistant so I could spend that time napping or working on a hobby or side interest, that would be cool. But that's not the goal of companies pushing AI. They figure if I don't have to do the "mindless" work anymore, I can do "deep work" for my full 40 hours. But maybe I'm not capable of working more hours at that level of focus. Maybe the hours spent doing "mindless" work are necessary for resting and recharging between the intense sessions. So if my company takes away the "mindless" work, they're probably not going to get the jump in productivity they're going for. They're more likely to burn me out and send me looking for a new job. reply reply reply Working for 10 hours a week can either be embarrassingly bad or heroically productive depending on the situation you find yourself in. People can

> On average, Adam puts in 0-10 hours of deep work a week. The rest of his work hours are spent mindlessly coding, listening in on various meetings with his camera off, and on TikTok. What is mindlessly coding and how does that work? Seems like the author is dismissive of meetings and some coding tasks. Mindlessly coding is stuff like gluing together libraries, components, and services that do the actual work, building simple CRUD UIs, copying AWS configurations to terraform, etc. I wouldn't call that mindless, just not as cerebral as some tasks. But mindless or not, if it needs to be…

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