AI doesn't take work away from you.

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0200

It just shows you how much work would be possible.

There’s a comforting story going around right now: AI makes us more productive, saves time, and frees us from work. That’s the official version. The unofficial one is considerably less pleasant: many people are working more than before. Not because they have to. Because they can.

Work used to be constrained by things nobody actually liked, but that turned out to be surprisingly useful: time, friction, complexity. These weren’t bugs in the system — they were a kind of built-in circuit breaker. They forced you to stop at some point. Eventually you’d hit the moment where the effort simply wasn’t worth it anymore. “Good enough” wasn’t a philosophy. It was a necessity.

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AI doesn't take work away from you.

It just shows you how much work would be possible.