Developer reflects on burnout from daily LLM usage
The author reflects on their growing fatigue from heavy daily use of LLMs (Claude Code, Codex) in their development work. Despite being a moderate user by current standards, they spend hours each day interacting with AI assistants and have grown unexpectedly tired of reading LLM-generated output. The piece captures a personal sense of burnout with the AI-assisted workflow that has become normalized in software development.
Key quotes
I use LLMs a lot. By current dev standards, my usage rate is probably average, and my methods are probably primitive.
I work on one task at a time and discuss it with Claude Code (at work) or Codex (at home, for now).
I spend hours each day interacting with LLMs across work and home.
I probably don't go a day without reading AI-generated...
I didn't expect to get so tired of reading LLM output.
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