'AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it': A software engineer warns there's a mental cost to AI productivity gains
AI programmer Getty Images/iStockphoto A software engineer has struck a chord with an essay about "AI fatigue." Siddhant Khare said while AI has made him more productive, his job is harder than ever. Suffering from burnout, Khare said he had to rein in his AI usage. The software engineers are not alright. AI was supposed to make programming easier. Siddhant Khare said that while AI tools have made him more productive, his job is now harder than ever. "We used to call it an engineer, now it is like a reviewer," Khare told Business Insider. "Every time it feels like you are a judge at an assembly line and that assembly line is never-ending, you just keep stamping those PRs." Khare wrote a lengthy essay titled "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it." In it, he wrote that AI fatigue is "the kind of exhaustion that no amount of tooling or workflow optimization could fix." "I shipped more code last quarter than any q...
