Professor on working with AI agents all day: chores now feel like a vacation
ipeirotis · x · 2026-10-26
NYU professor ipeirotis shares a side effect of working with AI agents all day: chores he used to dread — laundry, dishes, grocery shopping — now feel like a vacation, because by evening his brain is so fried that low-cognition repetitive tasks are a relief. A telling anecdote about the cognitive intensity of agentic work.
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