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took me a long while to realize burn out isn’t only caused by working too hard you can experience a 10x more potent burn out just by working on something unexciting for too long↗

·@zack_overflow·Nov 8, 2026·essay·burnout·productivity

wondering why I feel exhausted. maybe: the agents do all the easy stuff, and I have to work through the leftover hard bits, which means I'm perpetually locked in. and as the models get better, "my" work just gets harder and harder, until I'm basically underqualified to do the wor…↗