Speaking from experience, programmers are notoriously susceptible to the pitch of tools like this, because our professional work frequently involves automating repetitive things we do by hand. So we get the jolt of productivity dopamine from automating our note-taking process, which is easy and doable for a programmer, instead of the uncertain reward of actually thinking deeply about a question that you don't know the answer to or attempting to write something novel. The labor of those is much harder to automate away, as anyone who thinks critically about the output of large language models for more than a second will attest.
Yes, addiction is real. What he is proposing is that the root of addiction is avoidance. In my years as an addicted heavy drinker, there was always an unarticulated question, what are you avoiding? Which after many years without drinking, begins to articulate itself. I'm going to follow these posts with eager interest.
Speaking from experience, programmers are notoriously susceptible to the pitch of tools like this, because our professional work frequently involves automating repetitive things we do by hand. So we get the jolt of productivity dopamine from automating our note-taking process, which is easy and doable for a programmer, instead of the uncertain reward of actually thinking deeply about a question that you don't know the answer to or attempting to write something novel. The labor of those is much harder to automate away, as anyone who thinks critically about the output of large language models for more than a second will attest.
Yes, addiction is real. What he is proposing is that the root of addiction is avoidance. In my years as an addicted heavy drinker, there was always an unarticulated question, what are you avoiding? Which after many years without drinking, begins to articulate itself. I'm going to follow these posts with eager interest.
The addiction is real .