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I Think I Have LLM Burnout

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A software developer reflects on the psychological toll of relying heavily on LLMs for daily coding tasks. While acknowledging increased productivity, the author expresses growing frustration with the repetitive, hallucination-prone, and formulaic nature of AI-generated content.

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). Sometimes, I let the assistant write code, but I read the output thoroughly, understand it, and revise it. I’m not in the deep end of autonomous agents or agent orchestration. Still, I spend hours each day interacting with LLMs across work and home. That’s a hell of a lot more than I did a few years ago, and I probably don’t go a day without reading AI-generated text.

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