THE PRODUCTIVITY-EXPERIENCE PARADOX

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

AI is brilliant for external goods - money, status, and output - and potentially corrosive for internal ones - the skill, the mastery, and the satisfaction you can only get by doing the thing itself. People after external goods see AI as close to a superpower, as it makes people more productive and produces more output. However, for those interested in the internal goods, AI can feel like a loss, as it takes the parts they loved and hands it to a machine, leaving only supervision and accountability. While the output still arrives, the pride and satisfaction of owning the work is gone.