"An engineer named Siddhant Khare wrote recently about what he called “AI fatigue” — the exhaustion that comes not from creating but from reviewing. Before AI,
An engineer named Siddhant Khare has described a phenomenon he calls "AI fatigue," stemming from the constant review of AI-generated content rather than the creative act of building. This shift transforms a developer's workflow from problem-solving and coding to a repetitive cycle of prompting, evaluating, and refining AI outputs. While some find AI liberating for tedious tasks like documentation, Khare highlights the loss of deep focus and creative fulfillment, suggesting the fatigue arises from the pressure to emotionally invest in all AI-produced work, even mundane outputs. AI
IMPACT Highlights the potential for AI to shift creative roles towards evaluation, impacting developer satisfaction and workflow.