I feel like this conflates work with productivity. One can be working more than ever and still be unproductive.

In my opinion what people think is that they will be more productive for the same amount of work, not have more work than previously and still only be approximately at the same level of productivity.

What AI has done to many is create more busywork than it solves in many cases, rather than making me more efficient for the same amount of working hours.

It’s been deployed widely enough that it’s becoming apparent where its lines are from genuine tool that boosts productivity to bolted on and makes things the same or worse, the pipeline for the work simply looking different