5 posts across Work & Judgement, Directing AI, Systems & Adoption
Three surveys and one product launch all describe the same gap: AI recovers time, attention, or workload space, and by default someone else decides what fills it. Four separate signals point at the same missing habit.
4 min readCursor's July 2026 data shows the top 1% of AI users produce 46 times more than the median. Everyone's using the same tools. The gap is a skill — and it's learnable.
5 min readLenny Rachitsky surveyed ~6,000 tech workers. 82% say AI makes them more productive. Burnout rose from 44.7% to 55.7% year-over-year. The gap between those two numbers is where a lot of people are quietly living right now.
4 min readOpenAI's B2B Signals data shows the AI gap has stopped being about who uses it and started being about what they use it for. Typical firms ask AI questions. Frontier firms build AI into multi-step execution — and the difference is widening.
5 min readMost people report AI making them more productive. Many of the same people report feeling more drained. Both are true, and the reason is what AI removes from your day versus what it adds.
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