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Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

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I want to describe a completely ordinary hour from my week, because I suspect it's your week too. A scene from my actual workday I'm building a small feature. I open my AI chat — Claude on this particular day, but it rotates — and ask it to draft the data model. Great answer. I copy it into my edit…

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  1. 2026-08-26 05:36 · DEV Community — AI
    Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

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