[quinncom]

“We found that the phenomenon described in these posts—cognitive exhaustion from intensive oversight of AI agents—is both real and significant. We call it “AI brain fry,” which we define as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight of AI tools beyond one’s cognitive capacity.”

https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

[ex-aws-dude]

That's something I haven't seen discussed much, what is the "annoyance-cost" of using the tool?

Say I complete a task 30% faster but what was the annoyance-cost of the model constantly getting it wrong and having to keep correcting it