Apparently AI was supposed to make developers work less.
That was the idea, anyway. Write code faster. Automate the boring parts. Finish the same feature in half the time. Close the laptop at 2 p.m. and go become the kind of person who owns hiking shoes for reasons other than taking out the trash.
That is not what happened.
A lot of developers are working more with AI, not less. Not because AI is useless. The problem is almost the opposite. AI is useful enough that it makes more work feel worth doing.
There is a name for this kind of thing: the rebound effect.
