AI enthusiasts working late into the night on new capabilities risk serious burnout. The speaker saw team members coding until 1-2 AM, thrilled by tools like ChatGPT's image model. Companies need safeguards like token limits to prevent the current wave of excitement from becoming chronic exhaustion.
If you feel like you're very AI-pilled right now, the only concern I have for people that are very AI-pilled is the risk of burnout. You're definitely going to feel momentum, but the burnout can be really real now because you don't stop working. Because there's people on my team that work till 2:00 AM. I'm like, nobody told you to work till 2:00 AM, right? He's like, no. I'm like, then why are you doing it? He's like, because I'm having so much fun right now, right? Yeah. Other person's like 1:00 AM and he's like, I found out the ChatGPT new images model. I'm like, that's fantastic. But please, I need you guys to, you almost need to have a mental health policy. Most companies will have some type of mental health policy where probably your tokens get shut off or something like that. People are going to realize that, hey, like maybe this thing is intended to help us make us work less overall in the long run. I think right now everyone's just so excited about this new technology that I think we're going to over-index, overwork right now. I think longer term it might decrease, right?
