billwashere

I don’t think so. I think he’s blaming the “solution” as being a stop gap at best and painful for end-users at worst. Yes the AI crawlers have caused the issue but I’m not sure this is a great final solution.

As the article discussed, this is essentially “an expensive“ math problem meant to deter AI crawlers but in the end it ain’t really that expensive. It’s more like they put two door handles on a door hoping the bots are too lazy to turn both of them but also severely slowing down all one-handed people. I’m not sure it will ever be feasible to essentially figure out how to have one bot determine if the other end is also a bot without human interaction.

Yeah totally. I’m most productive in the super early morning before anyone gets there, like 6-9am. Or in the late evening after everyone has gone home. But the wife is like why are you still at work. When I get in the zone I get total time blindness. What felt like 15 minutes was more like 4 hours.

Yep printing this one to go on my door right next to the one above.

I wrote a reply before I got this far down in this thread, but 100% agree.

So for that hour:

10min to stop the last thing I was doing.

10 min to switch to new task (getting environment set up, checking out code, etc).

30 min to figure out where I was the last time I started.

And now 10 min to actually do anything.

God forbid a random pop-in, priority email, slack message, system alert, etc happen in that hour.

Yep seems totally efficient to me.

I’m an old comp sci grad. There was a concept we learned in my operating systems class called a context switch.

So basically, a context switch is when an operating system pauses one running process or thread, saves its state, and loads the saved state of another so the CPU can execute it. This makes multitasking possible by letting multiple processes share a single CPU while each later resumes exactly where it left off.

I would kill for this feature in real life.

I’m a card carrying medicated ADHD adult. I have this printed and on my door at work. Yesterday at one point I had a queue of people at my office door. The irony of why I didn’t get a lot done yesterday was lost on most people.

This took me way longer to get than it really should have.