-In February 2026, I wrote an essay about it: "[AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it](https://siddhantkhare.com/blog/ai-fatigue-is-real)." It hit #1 on Hacker News. Over 300 comments, most of them from engineers saying the same thing - they were productive on paper but exhausted in practice. [Business Insider](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-fatigue-is-real-and-nobody-talks-about-it-2026-2), [Futurism](https://futurism.com), and [NDTV](https://ndtv.com) covered it. The [Chosun Ilbo](https://chosun.com) ran it in South Korea. [Techmeme](https://techmeme.com) picked it up. Newsletters and podcasts followed. Then the DMs started. VPs of Engineering, Directors, CTOs, and senior engineers from Google, Netflix, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn, and dozens of other companies reached out directly - all saying some version of the same thing: "this is exactly what my team is going through." The response made one thing clear: this wasn’t just my experience. The entire industry was feeling the weight of AI-accelerated work without the infrastructure to make it sustainable.
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