I use AI to save time. So why am I working more?

The promise of AI is fewer tasks and more freedom. Instead, many of us are using the time we save to take on even more work.

This year, I’ve been building an AI social media production pipeline to promote the 25+ shows on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network. It took me a week of effort, but I managed to program Claude Code to talk to NotebookLM, which now feeds our YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok pipeline, and a task that used to take me a full day now runs in the background. The first time I ran a real batch through it, I felt the guilt of always being behind fade away. I could physically feel my nervous system recalibrating. Maybe for the first time since I was 10 years old, with these artificial intelligence agents, I could recapture the feeling of not being behind!