AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it
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AI tools accelerate individual tasks but create hidden cognitive costs that lead to exhaustion. While AI reduces production time, it increases context-switching, transforms engineers into reviewers rather than creators, introduces nondeterministic outputs that clash with engineering mindsets, and removes natural work pace
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The paradox nobody warned us aboutYou became a reviewer and you didn't sign up for itThe nondeterminism problemThe FOMO treadmillThe "just one more prompt" trapPerfectionism meets probabilistic outputThe thinking atrophyThe comparison trapWhat actually helpedThe sustainability questionThe real skillSort: