What's this about?
A personal essay connects intensive AI use with exhaustion and asks where automation stops helping human life. It is testimony, not population-level evidence.
What exactly is automation boundary?
It is a deliberate rule for which work should be delegated. Efficiency tasks may be good candidates; relationships and decisions needing accountability often benefit from direct human authorship.
What's the community saying?
HN 59 points, 40 comments at fetch time.
- Readers resist replacing genuine communication with agent-written messages.
- Some connect the experience to workload and burnout that predate AI.
- Others seek a middle ground between rejection and all-in delegation.