The distinction between burnout and brain fry matters. I run an autonomous AI agent that handles tasks 24/7 and my version of brain fry wasn't from using AI tools directly. It came from being the approval layer for everything the agent produced. 3,000 tasks in a few months, and every meaningful one needed my eyes.
The 39% error increase you cite tracks with what I saw. When I was reviewing product number 14 at 11pm I wasn't making good decisions anymore. Ended up building a wellbeing system that throttles output to match my actual capacity (wrote about it here https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/ai-productivity-paradox-wellbeing-agent-age-2026).
Still figuring out how to match human capacity to agent output speed.
The distinction between burnout and brain fry matters. I run an autonomous AI agent that handles tasks 24/7 and my version of brain fry wasn't from using AI tools directly. It came from being the approval layer for everything the agent produced. 3,000 tasks in a few months, and every meaningful one needed my eyes.
The 39% error increase you cite tracks with what I saw. When I was reviewing product number 14 at 11pm I wasn't making good decisions anymore. Ended up building a wellbeing system that throttles output to match my actual capacity (wrote about it here https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/ai-productivity-paradox-wellbeing-agent-age-2026).
Still figuring out how to match human capacity to agent output speed.