{"slug": "work-just-became-fun-for-millions-of-people", "title": "Work Just Became Fun for Millions of People", "summary": "AI has transformed work into a fun activity for millions of people, according to a blog post by an unnamed author. The author argues that AI has removed the burden of maintaining workflows, knowledge bases, and output formats, allowing humans to spend more time creating rather than being overwhelmed by process and bureaucracy.", "body_md": "There's a narrative about AI and work that says AI was supposed to let us do way LESS work, but somehow it's made us work MORE.\n\nI think that's the wrong way to think about it.\n\nWhat's happening is I and all the other crazy AI people have stopped seeing work as work.\n\nBecause of AI, building things has become fun.\n\nAnother way to say that is, AI has opened the door to humans spending more time making things instead of being crushed by meetings and process and bureaucracy.\n\nThe work wasn't hard. What was hard was maintaining all this scaffolding. The workflows. The knowledge bases. And the output formats that make everything look professional.[AI Unmasked Our Work as Scaffolding](2026)\n\nAnd it's completely [exhilarating](/blog/ai-morose-mania).\n\nYes, it's possible to overdo it. But that's true for anything, including positive things.\n\nWe're missing how major this is.\n\nWork just became fun for millions of people.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/work-just-became-fun-for-millions-of-people", "canonical_source": "https://danielmiessler.com/blog/work-just-became-fun?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=website", "published_at": "2026-08-09 22:15:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 22:47:22.409742+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/work-just-became-fun-for-millions-of-people", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/work-just-became-fun-for-millions-of-people.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/work-just-became-fun-for-millions-of-people.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/work-just-became-fun-for-millions-of-people.jsonld"}}