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The essay describes a common failure mode of AI assistants: they generate plans, checklists, and drafts quickly, and that output can substitute for the finishing work it was meant to support. For AI readers, the useful point is that output volume is not task completion, so the value of an assistant depends on whether it helps close loops or only multiplies them. The author still endorses AI's usefulness, which keeps the critique focused on how these tools are used and designed rather than on whether they work at all.
Sources coveringFortune, LessWrong
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I believe in AI. But my AI assistant gave me more work than it could finish

Fortune5 min read

My to-do-list has a to-do list.

I opened my daily to-do list and found 156 items. “Daily” was doing some ambitious work in that sentence. I’m a writer, publisher and entrepreneur. I expect a certain amount of chaos. There are manuscripts, emails, projects, follow-ups and the occasional administrative mystery that arrives disguised as a perfectly ordinary Tuesday. Still, 156 items suggested that my productivity system had developed career ambitions of its own. It was building a department. Soon it would need an org chart. Some of the work was already underway. Some items overlapped. Some were reminders about other reminders.…

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