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Powerful new Harvard Business Review study. "AI does not reduce work. It intensifies it. " A 8-month field study at a US tech company with about 200 employees found that AI use did not shrink work, it intensified it, and made employees busier. Task expansion happened because AI filled in gaps in knowledge, so people started doing work that used to belong to other roles or would have been outsourced or deferred. That shift created extra coordination and review work for specialists, including fixing AI-assisted drafts and coaching colleagues whose work was only partly correct or complete. Boundaries blurred because starting became as easy as writing a prompt, so work slipped into lunch, meetings, and the minutes right before stepping away. Multitasking rose because people ran multiple AI threads at once and kept checking outputs, which increased attention switching and mental load. Over time, this faster rhythm raised expectations for speed through what became visible and normal, even without explicit pressure from managers.

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For the first time ever, it’s actually possible to go through my backlog

GPT-5.2 is the BEST coding agent right now. It does what you ask, and it works. WHY? 1. I always had to correct Claude Code. 2. Gemini is trash. Switches languages and removes features. 3. Grok is confident but can’t write modern Swift. Too many compiler errors.

gpt is ruining my work life balance, its like having a phd student that never stops working, so then I never stop. I keep wanting to stay up for another 45 min to see if it correctly did my proof sketch or fixed the issue I found in previous message. Bedtime getting pushed later and later and weekends disappearing to prompting gpt.

Agreed. Dwarkesh is just wrong here. GPT-5 Pro can now do legal research and analysis at a very high level (with limitations - may need to run even longer for certain searches; can't connect to proprietary databases). I use it to enhance my work all the time, with excellent results. I would REALLY miss the model if it became unavailable to me for some reason. And yet, the percentage of lawyers who actually use GPT-5 Pro for these kinds of tasks is probably <1%. Why? There's a myriad reasons - none having anything to do with the model's capabilities. Lawyers are conservative, lawyers are non-technical, lawyers don't know which model to use, lawyers tried GPT-4o two years ago and concluded that it sucks, lawyers don't have enterprise access to the model, lawyers don't feel serious competitive pressure to use AI, lawyers are afraid of opening Pandora's Box, lawyers are too busy to care about some AI thing when there's a brief due to be filed tomorrow morning, lawyers need Westlaw/Lexis connected to the model but that's not currently possible. I suspect that there are many parallels to this in other fields.