Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2025-09-15 · 72 min · 13,994 words

Ep. 370: Deep Work in the Age of AI

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In recent weeks there's been a lot of turmoil surrounding AI technology. It increasingly seems now Like those grand promises of superintelligence or AI systems automating most of the economy, these grand promises are probably Not going. become true. But what about the more practical promise?

The one that AI tools are gonna make knowledge workers More productive, especially if you do something like computer programming For which AI is well suited. That's still true, right? Well the answer turns out to be

Complicated. A recent study about AI productivity yield a completely unexpected result. It created a a glitch, so to speak. That leads to some deeper truths. About this technology.

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