The AI Productivity Paradox creates a kind of anxious mania.
- The AI Productivity Paradox creates a kind of anxious mania.
- As your individual ability increases by orders of magnitude, the opportunity cost of an incremental minute of yours goes up significantly.
- You get almost manic, and anxiously addicted to work.
- Part of it is the joy of being able to achieve much more than before.
- But a larger part is knowing that others have the same ability, and if you don't take advantage of it, you'll be left in the dust, unable to ever catch up.
- When you have this mania, you get anxious when you're away from your Claude Code sessions on your computer.
- A friend with decades of experience managing financial portfolios described it as the same feeling.
- Debilitating, manic.
- It ages you in dog years.
- In the realm of software, we didn't before have such neverending fast-twitch domains.
- Except for DevOps during an incident.
- Even normal fast execution prized in Silicon Valley was orders of magnitude slower twitch than watching a portfolio anxiously.
- But now we have it all day every day!
- The new normal, grinding us down with overwhelming possibility.