Today on the AI Daily Brief, why agents make every job a startup.

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you can go to AID Daily Brief.aI.i. Now today, for this long read slash big think style episode,

we're exploring a phenomenon that I've been observing for some time, that I've been feeling within

myself, that I've seen many other people feeling, and that I think there's increasing discourse around.

I think unpacking it is important to understand, in practice, not in theory, how AI and

agents are actually going to impact the economy.

The phenomenon is this.

For the first couple years of Gen.

The prevailing narrative was that it was going to be this time-saving thing. Even as recently as the

end of last year when we did our big ROI survey, time-saving was the biggest reported ROI that people

shared. And yet, especially now that we're in this agentic era, we're all finding ourselves not

clocking out at 3 p.m. on Thursday, but forcing ourselves to go to bed and turn off at 3 a.m.

And you see this all over AI Twitter.

Aaron Levy from Box writes, sorry to anyone who thought AI would mean we'd work less, at least for now.

AI makes it easy to explore more than you did before and so you start doing far more as a result. Shanu Matthew reposted that saying, have consistently logged 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. days the last few weeks with only breaks for dinner and workout, and let it disrupt sleep, too, unfortunately thinking about the technical issues. Really hard to not get fixated on solving some of these problems when you make so much progress

in each new session, but run into a whole new set of issues to resolve. Also, it's difficult to

step away when you think you just need to point the agent to a detailed spec and let it do the work,

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