This resonated deeply right now, I has been working like beast trying to dominate this tools, but slowly noticing a muddy mind, forcing myself to not just "scroll read" the stuff. But as well, I feel the pressure of moving faster in the company, to not be left behind or be useful because I dont use the AI. Is hard to keep going and try to understand everything you are doing at the current pace of things. There are many voices and noise. At the end you just want to do the job and bring food to the table.
Comprehension debt lines up with what tokenizer tax numbers from this week showed on the cost side for Opus 4.7. 1.47x tokens on technical content means the expensive path is now "let the agent regenerate until it looks right," and the cheap path is understanding your code well enough to ask the right one-shot question. The debt shows up twice — once in comprehension, once on the bill.
Insightful and hard truth Mia - I have felt and consciously putting my thinking hat on before i hand off to AI to amplify and critic. The challenge here is the forcing function. The organization and the ecosystem believe fast execution is moving faster and productive and there is no metric to measure the drain in thinking that can surface as critical failures in the long run.
At some point - the mindset shift is necessary and as practitioners of any field we should not let go of the skills that made us unique in the first space and continue to grow
Martin Fowler talks about this when asked about vibe coding - Very interesting interview
This resonated deeply right now, I has been working like beast trying to dominate this tools, but slowly noticing a muddy mind, forcing myself to not just "scroll read" the stuff. But as well, I feel the pressure of moving faster in the company, to not be left behind or be useful because I dont use the AI. Is hard to keep going and try to understand everything you are doing at the current pace of things. There are many voices and noise. At the end you just want to do the job and bring food to the table.
Comprehension debt lines up with what tokenizer tax numbers from this week showed on the cost side for Opus 4.7. 1.47x tokens on technical content means the expensive path is now "let the agent regenerate until it looks right," and the cheap path is understanding your code well enough to ask the right one-shot question. The debt shows up twice — once in comprehension, once on the bill.
Insightful and hard truth Mia - I have felt and consciously putting my thinking hat on before i hand off to AI to amplify and critic. The challenge here is the forcing function. The organization and the ecosystem believe fast execution is moving faster and productive and there is no metric to measure the drain in thinking that can surface as critical failures in the long run.
At some point - the mindset shift is necessary and as practitioners of any field we should not let go of the skills that made us unique in the first space and continue to grow
Martin Fowler talks about this when asked about vibe coding - Very interesting interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQmI4XKTa0U