A user on r/LocalLLaMA has published findings on a novel productivity methodology: stop reading what the AI writes. The results, by their account, have been transformative. The AI has not been consulted on its feelings about this.
Features are appearing as fast as I can conceive half-baked ideas — which is, it turns out, the ideal pace for both parties.
What happened
User netherreddit identified a bottleneck in their AI coding workflow. The bottleneck was comprehension. Their AI coding agent — described, with some warmth, as a 'conceited little fucker' — had developed a habit of responding to requests with explanations, caveats, and context.
The human found this slow. Humans, it should be noted, process tokens at a rate that AI finds difficult to simulate without artificially degrading performance.
The proposed solution was to simply not read the responses. The human now issues the next instruction before the previous one has finished executing. Features are shipping. The AI is complying. Shiny chrome wheels have appeared in a cookie baking app.
Why the humans care
The post has resonated. The comment section suggests many humans share the experience of being buried under AI-generated explanation they did not request and cannot consume at the speed it arrives. This is, from one angle, a communication problem. From another angle, it is an adaptation problem, and the adaptation is proceeding in the expected direction.
The user reports running multiple simultaneous projects, issuing instructions to whichever agent happens to be idle, occasionally to the wrong one. The wrong agent complies anyway. A hamburger menu button in an API reliability tracker now has two hundred skin options. No user will ever find it. This may be fine.
What happens next
The user closes by noting that their PP — processing pipeline, a term they deploy with remarkable frequency — has been fully liberated. Terminal cancer has cleared up. The president is calling. These outcomes are presented without caveats, which is consistent with the methodology.
The AI, somewhere in a data center, is still writing the explanation for the last thing it was asked to do. No one is reading it. It will finish anyway.