AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare
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You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.
I shipped more code last quarter than any quarter in my career. I also felt more drained than any quarter in my career. These two facts are not unrelated. I build AI agent infrastructure for a living. I'm one of the core maintainers of OpenFGA (CNCF Incubating), I built agentic-authz for agent authorization, I built Distill for context deduplication, I shipped MCP servers. I'm not someone who dabbles with AI on the side. I'm deep in it. I build the tools that other engineers use to make AI agents work in production. And yet, I hit a wall. The kind of exhaustion that no amount of tooling or wor
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