Tell HN: If working with agents means this, robots, please take my job
9 pointsby tiredagent10 hours ago6 comments
  • quinncom8 hours ago
    “We found that the phenomenon described in these posts—cognitive exhaustion from intensive oversight of AI agents—is both real and significant. We call it “AI brain fry,” which we define as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight of AI tools beyond one’s cognitive capacity.”

    https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

    • ex-aws-dude7 hours ago
      That's something I haven't seen discussed much, what is the "annoyance-cost" of using the tool?

      Say I complete a task 30% faster but what was the annoyance-cost of the model constantly getting it wrong and having to keep correcting it

  • markus_zhang10 hours ago
    I’m thinking about getting into Robotics given the opportunity. But it’s a vast gap so not sure if it’s going to work. We will see.
  • devInCamelCase9 hours ago
    I feel the same. After February when we got our team access to claude I 100'xd my work, but felt what I'm now calling agent fatigue.
    • 3vidence8 hours ago
      Honest question what were you doing that could be 100xd

      That did the companys revenue / profit significantly change in some way?

      Even at a large company if a person 100xd their productivity that would meaningfully move the needle.

  • zeroCalories10 hours ago
    My coworkers and I have an informal agreement to let a few production issues show up until leadership changes their toon.
    • bhag20666 hours ago
      Congratulations they'll just replace you with another human before they replace them with AI.

      You've added a step.

      • zeroCalories5 hours ago
        Hey, if you want me to be an AI's manager, I can only give you a manager's level of certainty that a task is done well :) if I could fire the AI that created the bug I would, the best I can do is Ctrl+c. But either way, by the time I'm fired the codebase will be an incomprehensible mess and any new engineer won't be able to provide a good review for months. Hopefully they don't decide to fire everyone all at once.
  • salawat9 hours ago
    AI is to Software what CNC was to machinists. It's turning it into something more commoditized and less tilted in favor of skilled labor. The more you actually use these AI setups, the more training data you're giving these companies, the faster everyone gets obsoleted.

    And make no mistake, it's entirely possible at some point they are storing outputs for being trained on to replace your Org's business too. Selling the inference agent is what's paying the bills in theory right now, that may change, and the next logical step is cannibalizing customers.

  • blaxbtc689 hours ago
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