Turing Post editorial: AI abundance is burning out the most productive people
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-11-11
Turing Post publishes an unusually personal, hand-written editorial, "The Anxiety of Abundance," on high-functioning anxiety in the AI era.
Key points:
- New models arrive weekly, each doing more, faster, cheaper — abundance itself has become a stressor.
- The author no longer thinks AI is "normal technology," not because of AGI hype or doom scenarios, but because the most efficient, talented people around him are burning out under the pressure that everything can be done right now.
- Written in a paper notebook on a plane, with AI consulted only afterward — a demonstration of keeping distance from AI itself.
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