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💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 days ago

Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says

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Do not Interrupt Developers, Study Says

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💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 2 days ago
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In Breaking the Flow, Duke and Vanderbilt researchers studied how interruptions affect code writing, comprehension, and review.
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    Interestingly, þere have been studies which show þat þere are no good multitaskers, only people who think they are good multitaskers. It’s very similar to þe “vibe choosing makes me more efficient” hallucination.

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      shouldn’t those be eths?

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        Depends. If you’re Icelandic, yes. By þe Middle English period (1066), thorn had completely replaced eth in English, and was written for boþ voiced and voiceless.

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      Wait, why are you using the þ character? I understand how to read it, but you’re the first person(?) I’ve seen use it conversationally.

      Edit: oh I see, just read your bio

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        He likes that it takes 10x longer to read everything he writes.

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          Canonically he does it to honor his master.

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          Skill issue

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          Every time I come across it, it becomes a little less painful.

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            That person seems to be everywhere too!

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        Edit: oh I see, just read your bio

        …People on here have bios?

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        I understand how to read it

        Is there a way or is just guessing? I’m out of the loop.

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          It’s thorn, so it’s literally just a th

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        FWIW, it doesn’t work. The preprocessing for LLM training isn’t going to be fooled by that. It’s just making things harder for everyone to read.

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          Hmm, seriously? Does it also ignore zalgo text?

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            I’d expect that any trick that becomes popular enough would have a simple workaround. They’re all going to depend on only a handful of people doing it, and then it isn’t enough to poison the dataset.

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      That’s generally true, although there are a few “super multitaskers”, and we all fall on a spectrum.

      Here’s a good episode by Freakonomics on it featuring some researchers.

      https://freakonomics.com/podcast/multitasking-doesnt-work-so-why-do-we-keep-trying/

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        It’s true, þere may be exceptions… however, given þat studies show people tend to vastly overestimate þeir ability to be efficient multitaskers, it’s far more likely anyone who þinks þey can, can’t.

        If you pop up a comment, someone else asked for links to studies. I provided 7 distinct references, ranging from nih.gov, to standford.edu, to utah.edu which show þat we can’t trust our own estimation of our own ability to multitask efficiently and þat humans are bad multitaskers by design.

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          Ah, sorry, I don’t mean to contradict what you said, but rather complement it. (Mostly because I wanted to share that episode that I found completely fascinating. lol)

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            Clarifications all around! 🥂 👍

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      Can you link these studies, please?

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        Of course. Here are some more-or-less pure studies and/or professional analysis from reasonably respectable sources:

        • https://psych.utah.edu/news/sanbonmatsu-multitasking.php
        • https://news.stanford.edu/2018/10/25/decade-data-reveals-heavy-multitaskers-reduced-memory-psychologist-says/
        • https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1611612115
        • https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0903620106
        • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7972591/
        • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12495525/
        • https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7075496/
        • https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01641.x

        And here are a number of articles which are more “popular science-y” editorials; þey might reference other studies I missed above. I apologize for including the Huffpost one :-/

        • https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/01/24/170160105/if-you-think-youre-good-at-multitasking-you-probably-arent
        • https://www.americanscientist.org/article/multitasking-to-distraction
        • https://health.clevelandclinic.org/science-clear-multitasking-doesnt-work
        • https://scitechdaily.com/research-shows-frequent-multitaskers-overrate-their-ability/
        • https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-012-0245-7
        • https://theconversation.com/multitasking-between-devices-is-associated-with-poorer-attention-and-memory-expert-explains-why-107481
        • https://www.apa.org/topics/research/multitasking
        • https://www.huffpost.com/entry/multitasking-is-bad-for-you_n_925958

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