LLMs and performative productivity (joshcollinsworth.com)
It's worth asking whether LLMs are actually making us more productive at all—and if so, what we might be sacrificing in return.
"I’m very familiar with that sort of compulsion, and I recognized it as soon as I stepped back: I wanted to *play* AI, like a video game. I wanted that dopamine hit of *feeling like* I was accomplishing things unbelievably fast. (Not unlike a video game, actually.)"
Nice analogy.
