AI has not saved me any time
作者指出，AI并未节省他的时间，反而占据了大量时间。尽管AI在某些具体任务上确实能提高效率，但它也促使作者尝试了许多以前不会进行的“AI辅助”工作。例如，过去只需花费15分钟购买插件的任务，现在却会投入大量时间让AI生成并完善，导致额外花费了相当于一千欧元的时间成本，以及每月200欧元的订阅费。…
AI has not saved me any time.
Quite the opposite. It has eaten a frankly obscene amount of it.
Yes, in some very concrete tasks it does save time. But at the same time, it has made me start doing all kinds of “AI-assisted” things I never would have even attempted before.
I find myself doing much, much more work, not less. And not always very useful work.
Before:
“I’ll just buy that plugin for five euros a month and get this done.”
Time spent: 15 minutes.
Now: “Claude, make me this plugin. Make no mistakes.”
Then you start polishing it.
If I convert the hours into my income, I’ve spent about a thousand euros’ worth of time. On top of the 200-euro monthly subscription. And the best part is that in the old world, the whole thing would have been done in fifteen minutes, but now you think: “I’ll just quickly do this after work.”
And there goes the little free time you had left.
Or worse.
Before: “I have this app idea, but it’s not good enough to actually put money into.”
Now:
“Claude, make my billion-dollar SaaS. Make no mistakes.”
A couple of hours later, you have a “prototype” of an AI-powered Slack-killer for defense drones, with Uber-style dispatching, built-in CRM, and blockchain “just in case”, and a nice warm feeling.
Two weeks later, your evenings have disappeared into tinkering, some repo somewhere contains two gigabytes of code, and the next billion-dollar idea is already glowing in the distance.
AI does not free up my time.
It removes the last excuse I had for not doing every stupid thing that crosses my mind.
And that is exactly why it might be the best invention ever. I’m loving it!