I use this term very loosely. But today I feel like I finally understood what people meant by this more colloquial version of this phrase being thrown around on twitter. For the last 12 hours straight I spent delegating my 3 different projects with Claude. And the way Claude progresses is so unnatural that it takes insane brain power to keep up with the three projects that I swear I have gotten “AI psychosis”. For example, there is always a waiting period followed by a flurry of outputs that I need to check. And so I have three projects going through this cycle and brain basically has to keep all three in my head. And for Claude it is so easy. Claude will be like, “Ok we found the bug. It appears that X is causing Y. Would you like me to go back to the ABC1234 version we made earlier and restart from there”? And before you know it you have 10 new directories that you need to keep track of because Claude is just moving at a pace that you never ever could imagine doing yourself. And on top of that, you are constantly having to switch between projects. For the first time in my life, I find myself doing this thing where I need to close my eyes consciously allow my brain time to remind itself what it needs to know in order to interact with Claude properly as you move between projects. Today was especially difficult because I basically spent HOURS with claude on a wild goose chase that I could have gotten done in minutes if I had just done it myself. And there are times where I spend an hour planning something with Claude only to realize we had actually done something that had obviated this planning a couple weeks ago that I forgot about. But Claude does not warn you because one thing it SUCKS at is proper “long term memory”. There are just very important context windows that go into the wind once you are done with a project. I think the TLDR is that we are still learning how to deal with these monstrosities and it definitely takes a new part of our brains that we really have not practiced all of our lives. submitted by /u/OpinionsRdumb
Originally posted by u/OpinionsRdumb on r/ClaudeCode