Your Prize for Saving Time at Work with AI: More Work (wsj.com)

Sort of not much to say. This was an obvious issue right from the start.

This has always been how it goes. The industry revolution. The digital revolution. They all increase output, but the hours of input largely stayed the same. I’m not sure why anyone expected any different.

And guess where the increased earnings from your increase in productivity goes.

30h week please

The issue here, is that this removes a lot of tasks that allowed a person to relax a little mentally. So now we are working the same hours, but we need to be switched on for much longer during these hours. Could this result in more burnout and mental fatigue?

The root question is: what made productivity gains decouple from labor earnings?

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

Welcome to capitalism, same as it's always been

LLM with agent wrappers, currently claude code, has really helped my bootstrapping efforts, but I don't have much incentive to use it at work. I'll just get more work done and get handed more work, without any kind of matching pay bump.

It’s weird all these office jobs are mostly unevenly distributed UBI with weird rules around it.