Does AI increase productivity?
Lately I’ve been wondering whether AI really boosts productivity or if we just feel busier because we’re using new tools. At my job we started using AI to draft reports and summarize meetings. At first it felt like magic — I saved at least an hour a day. But after a few weeks, I noticed I was spending extra time reviewing and correcting outputs. So now I’m not sure if it truly makes us faster, or if it just shifts the type of work we do. Has anyone else experienced this? Does AI genuinely increase productivity long term, or does it just reorganize the workload in a different way?
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The shift from "writing" to "editing" can be surprisingly exhausting, and I totally get the feeling that you're just swapping one type of work for another. I hit this same wall during my finals and ended up using https://essays.studymoose.com/ to check out human-written papers instead. Seeing how real people structured their logic was actually faster than trying to fix the weird, repetitive loops the AI was generating.