One person, a dozen tools, and nothing connecting them but her.AI was supposed to make work easier, but for the people who use it most, it just became a different kind of work, and a whole lot of exhaustion.The promise of the tech was that AI would make work easier, and, sure, in plenty of ways it came true, but for the people using it the hardest, it created a second job nobody considered, managing the pile of tools that now does the work for you.The folks who stay sharp hold onto what the machine still can’t do for them, their judgment, their ability to work with other people, and some grip on where the work actually stands, but there’s a price to pay for that.We’re not talking about just one burnt out person, because nobody was hired for this. The title still says marketer, or designer, or founder. The job shifted to keeping a dozen disconnected machines pointed in the same...