'I Think I Have LLM Burnout' Tops Hacker News with 359 Points

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An essay by developer Alec Scollon arguing that constant AI-assisted coding has left him mentally exhausted drew 359 points and 307 comments on Hacker News (July 8), one of the highest-engagement AI threads of the week. The practitioner response signals a growing counter-narrative: the bottleneck has shifted from writing code to the relentless cognitive load of reviewing and steering agent output.