The use of AI is leading to burnout among its greatest advocates as they hit the limit of their meta-cognitive abilities: “I end each day exhausted—not from the work itself, but from the managing of the work. Six worktrees open, four half-written features, two ‘quick fixes’ that spawned rabbit holes, and a growing sense that I’m losing the plot entirely.” As someone with ADHD, this sounds painfully familiar. I’ve been spinning up workloads like that my whole life chasing the dopamine dragon. And as my fellow neuro-spicy siblings all know, there’s the thinnest of lines between “Oh wow I’m going so fast!” having fun being optimally stimulated and “Oh shit fuck no ow help cry ow” collapsing on the floor in desperation. It all reminds me of an old business book… The Goal by Eliyahu M Goldratt is a charming bit of manager porn on the topic of fixing industrial bottlenecks that I think illustrates the problems of unthoughtful acceleration-ism12. Andrew Murphy highlights the problems of more…
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