Boy! That hits like truck. Absolutely relatable. We can share that part of our mind, it lives rent free on my mind. How to balance the builder and the thinker part of my brain.
I also had feelings like actually typing the code gave me the time to think about it, but now the time between prolonged thinking is just squishing like thin line. Its getting too much building and no thinking or taking a step back.
Maybe that is how we will move forward, but it doesn’t look sustainable. Developers will burn out and eventually give into AI slop. But here we are learning to deal with them at the moment, and it seems we need to find a way around and through them and not out of them.