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I wonder if everyone has the same strong sense of severity as I do? The two o'clock fir...

I wonder if everyone has the same strong sense of severity as I do? The two o'clock first-line commute every day plus the turtle speed efficiency of at least eight hours between...

May 18, 2026 · 1 min read

I wonder if everyone has the same strong sense of severity as I do?

The two o'clock first-line commute every day plus the turtle speed efficiency of at least eight hours between office grids (although the company is in the AI transformation, the core is still the organization structure and division of labor), while continuing to work under the traditional mode and division of labor, the other side is wild, codex, claudecode, various skills, thinking about the parallel ten AI coding projects, the PR of the open source project should be merged, the SEO of a site should be done well, the dry goods shared by an AI boss on YouTube are ready to try it by hand...

brain, what is said, what is done includes action A powerful sense of contrast and fragmentation struck because the patterns could not be completely unified.

My job as an architect makes me more aware of this impact.

I have better plans and practices, but they are not suitable for the current environment and organization.

If you want to stop talking, dragonfly will water.

So I spend a little bit of my free time every day doing context refreshes and switching in my brain, or I'm really going crazy.😂

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