I use AI to save time. So why am I working more?

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This year, I've been building an AI social media production pipeline to promote the 25+ shows on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network.

It took me a week of effort, but I managed to program Claude Code to talk to NotebookLM, which now feeds our YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok pipeline, and a task that used to take me a full day now runs in...

The first time I ran a real batch through it, I felt the guilt of always being behind fade away.

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This year, I've been building an AI social media production pipeline to promote the 25+ shows on the Autistic Culture Podcast Network. It took me a week of effort, but I managed to program Claude Code to talk to NotebookLM, which now feeds our YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok pipeline, and a task that used to take me a full day now runs in the background. The first time I ran a real batch through it, I felt the guilt of always being behind fade away.

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Meanwhile, I was in the middle of building my next agent to send out press releases when new shows launch, but that got put on hold.
Business culture has one instrument for measuring AI, and it's the stopwatch.
Every dashboard asks how much faster the company is moving.
Maybe for the first time since I was 10 years old, with these artificial intelligence agents, I could recapture the feeling of not being behind!

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At about 3 a.m., I was in a full-on AI coding haze when I ran out of credits and had no choice but to go to bed. At that moment, I realized all this time I was trying to save by using AI was sure taking up a lot of time.

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I could physically feel my nervous system recalibrating.

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