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AI Lent - Day 1 - Rusty

1min read llm engineering life

Cancelled Claude Max, uninstalled Claude Code, as I won’t be needing them for the next 40 days.

Wrote a small Nix package, noticed vim motions feeling rusty.

Also feels much harder to think how to structure a piece of code. Definitely feeling the atrophy

MetricsScoreNote
Satisfaction6mostly just frustrated that everything feels hard again
Mental fatigue / cognitive load8learning to effectively search docs without an agent is hard
Number of PRs merged0Lunar New Year
Time to complete desired features4Took me 45 minutes to write a simple nix package
Confidence in released features8Pretty sure my nix package is correct
series: ai-lent