[wouldbecouldbe]

That’s why now it’s legitimate to work on multiple features or projects at the same time

[well_ackshually]

This way you can do twice the terrible job twice as fast!

(Also, this only applies if what you're working on happens to be easily parallelizable _and_ you're part of the extremely privileged subset of SV software engineers. Try getting two Android Studios/XCodes/Clang builds in parallel without 128GB of RAM, see what happens).

[wouldbecouldbe]

I appreciate sarcasm, but this is just snarky.

But yeah improving build speed & parallel running I think are one of the biggest advances devs can do to speed up development time in the AI age. With native apps that can be a challenge. I restructured a react native project to make it faster to iterate, but I have a feeling you might not be fond of rn.

[Forge36]

Context switching like that is exhausting

[jdonaldson]

It's a different kind of fatigue, but it's something a felt I got stronger at over time. Beats waiting IMHO, but be sure to give yourself a chance to rest.

[Davidzheng]

really interested in what the brain does when it "loads" the context for something it's familiar with but is currently unloaded from the working memory. Does it mostly try to align some internal state? or more just load memories into fast access

[AlienRobot]

The next step is running an LLM that tries to figure out parts of the project that you aren't working on so it automatically starts coding that while letting you code in peace other stuff manually.

[wouldbecouldbe]

Depends on the person I guess

[joebates]

I tried this but didn't realize how exhausting it is to think about even 2 smaller items at once.