AI Was Supposed to Give Us Free Time—Instead It 10x'd Output and 20x'd Expectations
djcows · x · 2026-08-28
A widely shared AI-community quip: instead of delivering more free time, AI has multiplied personal output 10x while inflating expectations 20x—the productivity dividend gets swallowed by rising demands. It captures a common practitioner feeling that work intensity has only gone up in the AI era.
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