> I've seen this in myself and colleagues of mine, where LLM use leads to faster burnout and higher cognitive load.

This needs more attention. There's a lot of inhumanity in the modern workplace and modern economy, and that needs to be addressed.

AI is being dumped into the society of 2026, which is about extracting as much wealth as possible for the already-wealthy shareholder class. Any wealth, comfort, or security anyone else gets is basically a glitch that "should" be fixed.

AI is an attempt to fix the glitch of having a well-compensated and comfortable knowledge worker class (which includes software engineers). They'd rather have what few they need running hot and burning out, and a mass of idle people ready to take their place for bottom-dollar.