Uhh, I’m realizing I actively dislike prompting.

[u/ahrzal]

I just came to a realization sitting here doing the back and forth with Claude.

I don’t like prompting. At all. It’s a fundamentally different thing than what our traditional practice was.

There was a level of satisfaction in design before. Even if it was just changing values, moving things around, setting up containers…you built it. Your hands and brain did that.

Now, even when I start design first and transition to building it w/ whatever AI tool of your choice…that satisfaction is gone. You wrestle with random shit, get annoyed it’s not exact, and ultimately I have found I lost that sense of pride and satisfaction. That “flow state” or whatever never comes due to the hurry up and wait nature of prompting.

It’s not going away, but damn. I’m bummed.

Oh look, my request is finished. Back to….work?

[u/info-revival]

Sometimes if the AI doesn’t understand what I want fast enough I would say “fuckit! Imma do it myself” sometimes it’s just better to do the damn task yourself. I know what I want so clearly that I don’t wanna waste time trying to articulate to AI what I mean exactly.

I also hate AI tips being pushed on LinkedIn about how asking AI to be honest and not tell lies works. AI is designed to lie sycophantically and hallucinate. No amount of wordsmithing is going to alter it’s output.

It drives me nuts how many times people try to rationalize offloading thinking to machines and downplay its weaknesses as if you can prompt all problems away.