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AI Promised Less Work. I Have Never Worked More. - Orestis Ioannou
20Echo
Familiar AI-workload paradox made concrete by the author's own GitHub contribution statistics across roles and years.
What it adds
Grounds the familiar 'AI makes us work more' idea in the author's own multi-year GitHub contribution data, showing a VP's output exceeding past IC levels in burst cycles.
Claim by claim
- 6 the author's own
- 4 an AI would say
- 0 known elsewhere
- 4 common knowledge
Its strongest original claims
- By October 27, 2026 the author had 2,102 GitHub contributions, more than any full year 2021–2025.
- August 2026 was the busiest month with 427 contributions versus a prior high of 319 in April 2020.
- As Principal Engineer the author averaged 114 contributions/month vs 173 as Full Stack Engineer.
- Median weekday contributions rose from 3-4 (2022-2025) to 7 in 2026.
- Days with 24+ contributions went from one per year to 16 in 2026.
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