Lately, I have been hearing the term "AI fatigue" everywhere.
Bold claims are flying around that AI will change the world and that conventional tools are no longer needed. However, behind all this, I feel that the amount of activity each of us needs to handle has actually increased to an abnormal degree.
When I look back on my past personal development experiences, the pace was much slower. For someone like me who does not code as a main profession, touching programs every day is not easy. Creating one class a day was enough, and as the term "weekend programmer" suggested, development was something that progressed little by little, taking time.
But now, with the help of AI, I have three coding projects running simultaneously. New features are added every day, and issues that come up can be resolved within the same day. This is a speed that my former self could never have imagined.
However, when I stop and reflect, I begin to wonder if this is really what I wanted to do.
I started using AI to save time and improve efficiency, but before I knew it, I was being chased by the outputs that AI keeps producing one after another. To keep up with AI, I have been forcing myself to do unnecessary things. As a result, many outputs have been produced, but my mind has been tossed around and exhausted by them. This is not the future I wished for.
When it comes to work, I have found a certain answer for how to engage with AI. My goal is not mere efficiency but improving quality. As long as I keep that in mind, AI functions as a very reliable partner.
The problem is how I spend my private time. Being driven by code that AI has written or analysis reports that AI has organized feels somehow wrong.
So I decided to return to the concept of essentialism. What is truly important to me? In which areas can I use AI to genuinely enhance my motivation and results? I need to reassess these things.
It is natural to take responsibility for what you have created, but you must not be crushed by that responsibility and lose sight of your original purpose. Being controlled by something you started as a pastime or hobby is putting the cart before the horse.
Therefore, to protect my own time, I established new rules.
First, I place what is essentially important to me at the center of my schedule. Then, for everything else that I could do but is not urgent, I confine it to specific time blocks.
Specifically, I dedicate my morning hours at the start of the day to my most mentally demanding important work and my core activities. I make sure to finish essential tasks within the morning. Then, I allocate tasks that do not require as much concentration and hobby-related activities to afternoon time blocks. If they do not get finished within that time, I simply carry them over to the next day.
In the past, being controlled by other people was a source of frustration, but now that may have simply transformed into being controlled by AI.
Precisely because I have obtained such a convenient tool, I want to have a clear sense of what I want to do and what I should do. Rather than matching myself to the speed of AI, I want to incorporate AI into my own comfortable rhythm. In this way, I intend to continue protecting my own way of moving forward.
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