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AI is increasing productivity and those who use it well will soon be able to do the work of what took 3–5 people. But what people don't talk about is how much more exhausting it is to use AI. I'm experiencing this with coding. Yes, I am more productive, but cognitively I'm exhausted and burning out. You trade deep focus for constant supervision. Managing multiple coding agents, jumping between projects while waiting for outputs, reviewing and checking work across different contexts. It's nonstop context-switching and decision-making, which drains you faster than writing the code by hand. There's something to be said for getting into a groove and coding for hours on a single task. That kind of deep work is actually restorative. Managing AI agents is the opposite. Shallow attention spread thin, with your brain never fully leaving the last thing you checked. I'm getting more done but nobody talks about how fried you feel at the end of the day.

Hope my girlfriend doesn't see this..

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