Where is our leisure time now?

Over the past few months I’ve been using AI agents a lot to automate many engineering tasks that otherwise would take me much longer to do.

I’m a firm believer that the era of writing code by hand has finished. With the right workflows these tools can do a lot of the work for us. AI is improving our productivity, and it will continue more and more as the tools mature.

If it took 3 days to implement a piece of work, by coding, reviewing and testing, you can now do this piece of work in 1 day.

However, even though we are reaching unparalleled levels of productivity, our workload and working hours remain the same. Rather than having more time to ourselves and our families thanks to AI automation, instead we build more, find more things to automate, more things to build while we automate other things.

I don’t see the need for this uneccessary hyperproductivity. I believe something is backwards in our society, and I hope we figure it out soon.