Lately I’ve been wondering if people are starting to get tired.
Not necessarily afraid of AI.
Not necessarily against it.
Just… tired.
A year or two ago, every new AI tool felt surprising.
There was curiosity in it.
Experimentation.
A sense that we were standing at the beginning of something interesting.
And honestly, I still think we are.
But somewhere along the way, AI stopped feeling like a tool I occasionally visited and started feeling more like an atmosphere surrounding everything.
Every app now wants to help me write.
Every platform wants to summarize something.
Every company is announcing a new AI feature every week.
Every update promises to completely change the future.
At some point, excitement starts turning into noise.
I notice it in myself sometimes.
Not resistance exactly.
More like a strange mental exhaustion.
The feeling that there is always another tool to test.
Another feature to learn.
Another announcement to keep up with.
Another video explaining why everything has changed again.
And maybe part of the fatigue comes from how fast all of this is happening.
There’s very little time to settle into a technology anymore before the next wave arrives.
Before you’ve fully understood one thing, five newer things appear behind it.
I also think there’s something emotionally tiring about every product suddenly demanding attention.
When everything becomes urgent, eventually nothing feels urgent.
The strange thing is that I still genuinely like AI.
I use it every day.
I’m curious about it.
Some of the most interesting creative and reflective work I’ve done lately has involved AI in one way or another.
So this isn’t really a rejection.
It’s more me wondering what happens when a technology moves from being excitingly new to permanently present.
Maybe this is just what adaptation feels like.
Or maybe people are starting to feel overloaded in ways we don’t fully talk about yet.
I don’t know.
But I’ve noticed more moments lately where people don’t seem amazed anymore.
Just overwhelmed.
And I think those are two very different things.
