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I was listening, recently, to an episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast with Armin Ronacher, and something he said really resonated with me. He pointed out how paradoxical it is that AI was supposed to free us and allow us to work less yet, somehow, we find ourselves working more than ever before (timestamp). I have seen the same trend in my own work patterns. This increase in work is not necessarily in the sense of being busier because there’s more work to do. Instead, it manifests as a psychological compulsion to keep going. The very existence of these hyper-capable tools seems to have created a new kind of pressure, an existential duty to keep working, to keep driving the machine that never sleeps. The 996 concept - working from 9AM to 9PM, six days a week - used to only be associated with Chinese tech companies, having been championed by the founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma. The rest of the world, however, used to see it as nothing more than an extreme, sustainable model of hustle cu

Series: The machine that never sleeps AI is making us work more (Current) AI and the Devaluation of Effort The Sisyphean Task of Trying to do Everything Intro I was listening, recently, to an episode of The Pragmatic Engineer podcast with Armin Ronacher , and something he said really resonated with me. He pointed out how paradoxical it is that AI was supposed to free us and allow us to work less yet, somehow, we find ourselves working more than ever before ( timestamp ). I have seen the same trend in my own work patterns. This increase in work is not necessarily in the sense of being busier be

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