LLMs Can Be Exhausting — Practitioner Burnout Essay Hits 86pts, 65cmts

Tom Johnell·medium signal

Tom Johnell's essay on the hidden cognitive exhaustion of daily LLM workflows — verification burden, context management overhead, and the mental tax of AI-assisted work — resonated broadly at 86pts and 65cmts (0.76 comment ratio). Directly complements the cognitive debt research cited in Stop Sloppypasta and the 'I'm 60 years old' Claude Code thread: a cluster of HN community sentiment converging on AI fatigue as a real phenomenon. Builder-relevant: the productivity promise has a hidden energy cost.