i completely believe this. i've been working from around 7AM to somewhere between 10-midnight seven days a week since june. (from home, trying to get my LLC going, but _still_)
I strongly recommend you stop doing this in the new year, find more support, and also that you spend more time than you might initially plan to on catching up with people over the festive period.
Two reasons:
1) burnout is real, and it can also devastate your ability to focus and enjoy really anything; you won’t know it until you get there but it can make you ill or make you more vulnerable to getting ill. I have spent two years trying not to believe I have actual dementia, and it is only now I am beginning to recover. I think agentic AI use risks a kind of burnout that is a terrible mix of something akin to doomscrolling and professional overwhelm. It’s for sure possible to burn out without it — I did — but my feeling as I get my life together and confront AI is that some people are already struggling with this; it’s paradoxically maybe only my burned out brain that stops me from getting that bad.
2) when you disappear from people’s lives a part of you disappears with it. Six months is quite a long time; don’t let it go longer than that. It is enough to strain personal connections you might miss in the future.
Good luck with your business, but take care of yourself :-)
as a person who went through burnout twice (even before AI) I'm warning you to be careful, it always happens unexpectedly and you realize "shit I'm done" when it's a bit late
proper rest without any work-related app in front of you (ideally outside or with other people) heals pretty fast, so make sure to clear your head that way
thinking of LLM usage... it's so close to how LLMs think anyway, vector similarity also being a binary relation. LLM stops blindly guessing SQL and instead starts navigating data straight away.
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