---
title: "The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-exhaustion-of-talking-to-a-tool-0ma3rjr5g
source_url: https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2026-06-tool-talking
type: article
source: "Lobsters"
published: 2026-06-25T20:34:52.661Z
updated: 2026-06-25T22:20:53.583Z
tags: ["llm", "rust", "vibe-coding"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 11
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# 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.

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## 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

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Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#vibe-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/vibe-coding)

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