The observation about losing the meditative "zone" when coding really cuts to something most takes on AI productivity miss. We're optimizing for output but nobody's measuring what happens when work becomes 100% decision-making with zero muscle memory breaks. I switched from illustration to digital art years back and teh first few months felt exhuasting in exactly this way - every choice required active thought instead of letting the brush do some of the thinking. The film-to-digital analogy is spot-on but there's probably a lag period we're not accounting for where burnout spikes before new rhythms emerge.
Thanks for sharing your experience on illustration! Deliberate over hands and minds activities is crucial (and fun). We need to pay more attentions to it.
The observation about losing the meditative "zone" when coding really cuts to something most takes on AI productivity miss. We're optimizing for output but nobody's measuring what happens when work becomes 100% decision-making with zero muscle memory breaks. I switched from illustration to digital art years back and teh first few months felt exhuasting in exactly this way - every choice required active thought instead of letting the brush do some of the thinking. The film-to-digital analogy is spot-on but there's probably a lag period we're not accounting for where burnout spikes before new rhythms emerge.
Thanks for sharing your experience on illustration! Deliberate over hands and minds activities is crucial (and fun). We need to pay more attentions to it.
The sharing keeps me think. The next generatiom could be the Agentic Engineering era IMHO.