The Botsitting Burden: Why AI is Creating More Work and Higher Turnover
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Workers are losing nearly a full day every week to the tedious task of supervising AI, leading to burnout and a high risk of employee turnover.
Workplace Wellbeing
Mental health, burnout, cognitive overload, work-life balance, and the human impact of workplace practices and technologies.
Reading List
The AI Productivity Paradox: Why Machine Speed is Breaking Human Engineers
AI is creating a supervision tax that forces senior engineers to process machine-speed output at biological-speed capacity, leading to systemic burnout and a collapse in software quality.
Rust Project Perspectives: Balancing AI Productivity with Maintainer Burnout
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The Rust project is weighing the productivity benefits of AI against the significant ethical concerns and the growing burden of low-quality automated contributions on its maintainers.
AI Speeds Work—And Swells It
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AI accelerates tasks but inflates workload and cognitive strain, so leaders need explicit norms—an “AI practice”—to make its benefits sustainable.
Posturr: Blur Your Mac Screen When You Slouch
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An open-source macOS app that uses your camera to detect slouching and gently enforce better posture by blurring the screen.
Seattle’s AI Backlash: Culture Over Innovation
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Seattle’s big tech has turned AI into a demoralizing mandate, breeding cynicism and stalling innovation, while places like San Francisco still believe and build.
Working After a Parietal Stroke: Protect Bandwidth, Single-Thread, Use AI, Say No
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Work in a way that fiercely protects limited cognitive bandwidth: minimize inputs, single-thread, use AI, and prioritize health over performance.
Always-On AI Is Driving Self-Exploitation
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AI’s always-on capability is driving a culture of self-imposed overwork, making rest a necessary act of resistance.
How to Lead When Tech’s Vibes Are Off
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In a shaken tech landscape, lead with public alignment, private honesty, and small acts of humane flexibility to preserve trust and stability.