AI use can move the work instead of removing it
The source asks readers to count the less visible work around AI use. For one task, track drafting, fact checks, and time spent keeping people in sync. That gives a clearer picture of what the tool changed than the time saved on a first draft alone.
Beyond Prompting
What the source reports
This source points to work that can be easy to miss when someone uses AI over time. A tool may help with a draft, but a person still has to check the result and keep the work moving with others. The linked takeaway offers a small test: choose one task and count drafting, fact checks, and time spent keeping people in sync. That tally can show where the work went. It does not, by itself, prove that AI raises or lowers total workload across every team.
Original source
- Title
- If You're Not Doing It, Somebody Else Is": Active Negotiation and the Invisible Labor of Sustained LLM Use
- Author
- Viana, Matt, Erickson, Patrick, Wilson, Shomir, Calacci, Dana
- Publication
- arXiv
- Date
- Friday, September 25, 2026