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Kind of feels like AI tools are speeding up the burnout cycle for me. I’ve always used straightforward easy to crank out tasks as a sort of break from the hard and slow problems, let my brain get the dopamine hit of rapid shipping.

29/3/25, 5:40 pm0 reposts3 likes

Cal Irvine

@calirvine.com

29 Mar 2025

AI nails those tasks though, meaning I’m spending more time on hard problems. From a business perspective this is obviously good, you want people focusing their time on the hard problems. But on a personal level, it’s kind of exhausting.