You’re not properly accounting for the risk of getting blocked on one of these 5 second tasks. Do an expected value calculation and things look very different.
Across a day of doing these little “run one command” tasks, even getting blocked by one could waste an hour. That makes the expected value calculation of each single task tilt much more in favor of a hands off approach.
Secondly, you’re not valuing the ability to take yourself out of the loop - especially when the task to be done by AI isn’t on the critical path, so it doesn’t matter if it takes 5 minutes or 5 milliseconds. Let AI run a few short commands while you go do something else that’ll definitely take longer than the difference - maybe a code review - and you’ve doubled your parallelism.
These examples are situational and up to the individual to choose how they operate, and they don’t affect you or your decisions.
Across a day of doing these little “run one command” tasks, even getting blocked by one could waste an hour. That makes the expected value calculation of each single task tilt much more in favor of a hands off approach.
Secondly, you’re not valuing the ability to take yourself out of the loop - especially when the task to be done by AI isn’t on the critical path, so it doesn’t matter if it takes 5 minutes or 5 milliseconds. Let AI run a few short commands while you go do something else that’ll definitely take longer than the difference - maybe a code review - and you’ve doubled your parallelism.
These examples are situational and up to the individual to choose how they operate, and they don’t affect you or your decisions.