The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
3 hours ago
- #Digital Distraction
- #Productivity Crisis
- #AI Overuse
- The author reflects on building numerous AI projects, most of which are not useful or maintainable, leading to a sense of waste and liability.
- AI acts as a "thermonuclear ADHD amplifier," promoting distraction and shallow work among peers, with examples like running multiple unrelated projects simultaneously.
- The tooling encourages excessive usage, such as vendors pushing for more tokens and interactions, while output often lacks quality, like untested code or low-value content.
- AI can undermine commitment and focus, as seen in a failed experiment to generate blog posts from speech, where removed effort resulted in garbage output.
- The trend relates to "pseudo-productivity," where digital tools increase busyness but reduce deep work, suggesting a need to curtail AI use to prioritize meaningful outcomes.