A software engineer explains “AI fatigue”, compounded by a FOMO treadmill of using AI labs' latest tools and “thinking atrophy”, alongside boosted productivity
You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
Siddhant Khare
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Discussion
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Anand Iyer
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Every engineer I've talked to says the same thing: AI made individual tasks faster but their days got harder. When a 3 hour task shrinks to 45 minutes, you don't do fewer tasks. You see yourself shipping faster, so your own expectations adjust. The baseline moves. It's like
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Siddhant Khare
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AI was supposed to make us more productive. So why is everyone more exhausted? Each task gets faster. So you do more tasks. Your brain doesn't scale like a GPU. Wrote about it honestly. https://siddhantkhare.com/...
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@clarityhacker
Axel
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The FOMO treadmill is real. Every new model launch creates this pressure to re-evaluate your entire workflow. Meanwhile the actual productivity gains come from deeply learning one tool, not constantly switching to whatever dropped yesterday.
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Bryan Anthonio
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I've been feeling the fatigue as well. It's almost like drinking from a firehose, especially when working on a larger project. [embedded post]
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@taumuyi
Tau-Mu Yi
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This is an excellent piece on why there are limits to the increase in productivity from #AI [embedded post]
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Mairead
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also “urgency culture” & FOMO was created by the capitalists to move products & money. It also creates an atmosphere of widespread (population wise) nervous system dysregulation. People get wind of something & the FOMO gets triggered which = $$ to capitalists. — It's populati…
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@gyttjansfolk
Jalle
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“When each task takes less time, you don't do fewer tasks. You do more tasks. Your capacity appears to expand, so the work expands to fill it. And then some. Your manager sees you shipping faster, so the expectations adjust.” — siddhantkhare.com/writing/ai- f...
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Priyav K Kaneria
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really good read