I’d only gone 24 hours without working with my AI agent,
and it was enough to not want to open it today.

I ran out of credits on Claude,
it had never happened to me before
and I never would have imagined the effect it had on me.

On Monday, around 6 pm, I got a notification:

<< You’ve used 99% of your weekly Claude usage,
it will reset on Wednesday at 2:00 am >>

First reaction: shit, now what?
Second reaction, almost immediately: tomorrow I’m not working.
Third reaction, after weighing reality: I have a lot of work.

That notification marked the end of my workday,
I saved the remaining 1% for any personal or work emergency,
a question,
a reply to a client,
or a fleeting idea that seems brilliant and evaporates the moment I tell it to the AI agent.

I was walking to my motorbike,
I felt a certain lightness,
my backpack weighed less,
I noticed a sense of freedom I hadn’t felt in a long time,
it reminded me of those random days when I didn’t have to go to school and stayed home alone, playing video games.

My head started making plans:
I’ll wake up late,
I’ll go play basketball,
I’ll clean up my computer,
I’ll repot a few plants… anyway.

More carefree than usual,
the next day I woke up at the same time as always.

I had work, like every day,
I decided to skip a big part of my professional tasks
and spend the day on human tasks,
which led me to reflect on it.

After a whole day without using any AI agent,
I realized something:

It’s no longer just the 10 hours a day of work,
the white light,
the stinging eyes,
the burning brain,
or that intrusive thought of whether you’re throwing your time away…

Now, add to the equation an inhuman speed of work,
“agentic” productivity,
you don’t even know what you’re doing,
but you do it,
everyone does it,
it looks “cool”,
the AI agent executes it,
you seem to think it through,
you direct it,
but you can’t even digest it.

So?

Yesterday I realized that
I’m increasingly becoming an automaton,
and the AI agent I work with is becoming more and more human.