Today I came across this sentence: "見ていて難しくない？"  
That question was used to ask an actor about his own movie. And when I used
Google Translate it gave me this translation: "Isn't it difficult to watch?"  
When I first saw it, I interpreted it from what I know of the て form usage,
like "After watching it, difficult don't you think?" but I wasn't so sure so I
had to check Google Translate for that result.  
I tried some other examples that I made up myself like "聞いていて良くない？" or
"やっていて簡単じゃない？" and they all resulted in a translation that has the pattern of
"Isn't it ... to ...?"  
So is my interpretation correct and this is just a way Japanese people use to
express the idea "Isn't it ... to ...?" or it's an actual grammatical
structure that I'm not aware of?
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The grammar behind "ていて+Adj" pattern