If AI is really making us more productive... why does it feel like we are working more, not less...?

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The promise of AI was the ultimate system optimisation: Efficiency. On paper, the tools are delivering something similar to what they promised: - Github Copilot / Claude writes effective code. - LLMs summarise the meeting minutes. - Automations handle Jira tickets. But I see a pattern: The more efficient the system becomes, the more the system demands. We have not used AI to buy back our time; we have used it to increase our "Normal Output" threshold. This is Jevons Paradox in real time: as t...