A week's work in 5 hours: AI use is resetting the baseline for what humans are expected to do
omooretweets · x · 2026-09-18
omooretweets observes that individuals can 10x output or cut 90% of effort with basic AI use — engineers he knows finish a week's work in 5 hours at companies where AI hasn't fully permeated (the joke: they're "wrappers on Claude/Codex").
His longer-term take: once everyone uses AI, expectations for human output reset. The interesting question becomes which tasks have AI output exceeding the median human, and what new human skills that pushes us to develop.
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