I'm Scott Drake. I write software and teach leadership, but what I really do is study complex things and turn those insights into systems anyone can use. This site is where I share past and current work.
Last week I posted about the mental and physical toll of AI-intensive coding sessions.
- Running three+ terminals at once
- Twelve-hour days that feel productive until they don't
- The disappearing gaps where your brain used to recover
I started calling it AI exhaustion. Turns out there's...
Last week, I could feel myself breaking down mentally and physically from AI coding sessions.
With Claude Code, I regularly run 3+ sessions at a time. When I finish giving instructions to one, another is waiting. The gaps between tasks where I'd normally get a mental and physical break don't exist...
Twelve hours. That's how long it took to build a feature that would have been two to three weeks of work six months ago.
Not a prototype. Not a proof of concept. A report generation system that requires research and analysis spread across multiple LLM calls, plugged into an existing module with es...
