{"slug": "while-ai-is-thinking", "title": "While AI Is Thinking", "summary": "A developer reflects on the overwhelming number of AI productivity claims and suggests that the real challenge is learning how to use the waiting time while AI processes requests. The piece argues that convenience might mean having more time where nothing needs to happen, rather than constantly optimizing productivity.", "body_md": "You wake up.\n\nYour brain isn’t quite awake yet,\n\nbut social media already seems to be having a very productive morning.\n\n“Here’s what you can do with AI.”\n\n“If you don’t know this trick, you’re missing out.”\n\n“This made me ten times more productive.”\n\nThere they are again, all lined up for the day.\n\nYou think, wow, that sounds useful.\n\nSo you try it.\n\nAnd, usually, it doesn’t work quite that well.\n\nMaybe I’m doing it wrong.\n\nMaybe it really does work for the person who posted it.\n\nBut I suspect the simpler answer is this:\n\n**Nobody really knows yet.**\n\nWe don’t really know the best way to use AI.\n\nWe don’t know exactly how to ask it for things.\n\nWe don’t know what to hand over to it,\n\nand what we should keep doing ourselves.\n\nIt feels less like someone has discovered “the right way,”\n\nand more like all of us are still wandering around, looking for it.\n\nWhich is why it gets a little tiring\n\nwhen someone announces a new correct answer every morning.\n\nI understand the need for impressions.\n\nBig claims travel better.\n\nThat’s probably just how it works.\n\nStill, the people making those claims always seem so cheerful.\n\n“Everything has changed!”\n\n“There’s no going back!”\n\n“If you don’t learn this now, you’ll be left behind!”\n\nAnd I find myself thinking:\n\n**Maybe the world doesn’t need to change quite so many times before breakfast.**\n\nI don’t know whether “noisy minority” is the right phrase.\n\nProbably not.\n\nWhat I want to know these days is something much less impressive.\n\nFor example:\n\nYou ask AI to do something.\n\nAnd the screen says:\n\n“Thinking…”\n\nFor ten seconds.\n\nMaybe thirty.\n\nWhat is a human being supposed to do then?\n\nRoll your shoulders.\n\nLook out the window.\n\nDrink some water.\n\nClose your eyes.\n\nThink about something completely unrelated.\n\n**Instead of teaching me how to make AI faster, I’d like someone to teach me how to recover while AI is thinking.**\n\nI would read that article.\n\nImmediately.\n\nIf AI is going to give us a little more time,\n\nmaybe we don’t have to fill that time with something else.\n\nMaybe becoming more convenient\n\ndoesn’t have to mean being able to do more things.\n\nMaybe it could mean something smaller than that.\n\nAnd better.\n\n**Maybe convenience is having a little more time in which nothing needs to happen.**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/while-ai-is-thinking", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/isurogi/while-ai-is-thinking-5e3b", "published_at": "2026-08-26 04:36:37+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 04:43:24.226791+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/while-ai-is-thinking", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/while-ai-is-thinking.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/while-ai-is-thinking.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/while-ai-is-thinking.jsonld"}}