AI speeds up the easy 80/20 of tasks 5-10x, but struggles with the hard 20/80
menhguin · x · 2026-08-22
The author argues that AI significantly speeds up the easy 80% of a project (e.g., templates, retrieval, applying changes from emails) by 5-10x. However, it offers little speedup for the hard 20% of the work. This creates an illusion of high efficiency initially, but actual time measurement shows the overall gains are much smaller.
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