This is much less true of my participation in the study where I was more conscientious, but I feel like historically a lot of my AI speed-up gains were eaten by the fact that while a prompt was running, I’d look at something else (FB, X, etc) and continue to do so for much longer than it took the prompt to run.
The temptation to multitask strikes me as a very likely cause of the loss of productivity. It is why I virtually never use reasoning models except for deep research.
The temptation to multitask strikes me as a very likely cause of the loss of productivity. It is why I virtually never use reasoning models except for deep research.