‘AI fatigue’ is settling in as companies’ proofs of concept increasingly fail. Here’s how to prevent it  | Fortune

AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare

You're using AI to be more productive. So why are you more exhausted than ever? The paradox every engineer needs to confront.

In spite of hype, many companies are moving cautiously when it comes to generative AI | TechCrunch

Companies are extremely interested in generative AI as vendors push potential benefits, but turning that desire from a proof of concept into a working product is proving much more challenging.

When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

As firms increasingly incentivize employees to build and oversee complex teams of agents—for example, by measuring and rewarding token consumption as a proxy for performance—people are finding themselves pushed to their cognitive limits. Participants in a recent study described a “buzzing” feeling or a mental fog with difficulty focusing, slower decision-making, and headaches. The authors call this phenomenon “AI brain fry,” defined as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight of AI tools beyond one’s cognitive capacity. This AI-associated mental strain carries significant costs in the form of increased employee errors, decision fatigue, and intention to quit. The findings also show how AI-driven workflows can be designed to diminish burnout and point toward specific manager, team, and organizational practices to avoid mental fatigue even as AI work intensifies.

AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds

Recent figures by MIT found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots are failing, with some drastic implications for the spending bubble.

Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy

AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.

I Solved My Mystery Fatigue with AI

Here’s how you can do the same

Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous

Introducing AI in the workplace can create a vicious cycle that leaves employees overburdened and burned out.

Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.

The Myth of the Instant Cake Mix

How to think about creative tooling in the new world of generative AI

AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture

Generative AI deserves scientific attention. But the rush to study it is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative.

AI is Creating Peak Software, Media is the Best Analogy

Let's learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kappor take on the question of AI job losses through the lens of a profession that is uniquely suited to AI disruption - software engineering. In …