Martijn Faassen @faassen@hachyderm.io
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This is very interesting and it's great this kind of research is being done!

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-redu

This is one development organization. So I wonder how much culture plays into it. If you have a grind mindset, maybe focused more on competition than collaboration, using AI could feed into this.

I already read a lot of stuff about keeping multiple agents running at all times, juggling between them. While I'm sure there are useful applications of this, I suspect a grind culture plays into this that makes people want to show off how busy they are.

@grimalkinaCat Hicks has written a lot about the cultural aspects of software dev, which is influencing me to ask questions like that.

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems. To correct for this, companies need to adopt an “AI practice,” or a set of norms and standards around AI use that can include intentional pauses, sequencing work, and adding more human grounding.

hbr.org · Harvard Business Review

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