--- title: The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool | daily.dev description: LLMs are cognitively exhausting because they demand social energy — the same mental effort we use when interacting with people — without delivering the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-exhaustion-of-talking-to-a-tool-0ma3rjr5g twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool | daily.dev og:description: LLMs are cognitively exhausting because they demand social energy — the same mental effort we use when interacting with people — without delivering the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-exhaustion-of-talking-to-a-tool-0ma3rjr5g og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/0ma3RJr5g.png og:image:alt: The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 3 min read · 11 upvotes · 5 comments ## Summary LLMs are cognitively exhausting because they demand social energy — the same mental effort we use when interacting with people — without delivering the reciprocal rewards of human interaction like learning, challenge, or inspiration. Unlike traditional tools that become extensions of the body through consistency and speed, LLMs require negotiation and persuasion but mostly return more code, more tests, and more excuses. The author questions whether the social brainwork spent on LLMs would be better directed at real colleagues. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@starfallcodes** · 2 upvotes > just learn coding atp 💔🥀 **@tgrecojs** · 0 upvotes > link seems to be broken - post can be found here (courtesy of wayback machine 🙂 ) [https://web.archive.org/web/20260620053822/https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/](https://web.archive.org/web/20260620053822/https://www.timwehrle.de/blog/i-stored-a-website-in-a-favicon/) **@chelmix** · 0 upvotes > IMO the worst is people who interact with LLMs with vocally. > For me it would really be exhausting given that I often prefer text communication even with real people :D ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The LLM Critics Are Right. 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