AI brain fry is real. If you’re exhausted, you’re not alone. | by Peter Baukys | Nov, 2026 | Muzli - Design Inspiration

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AI brain fry is real. If you’re exhausted, you’re not alone. TL;DR 🍳 It’s real, and it has a name. BCG calls it AI brain fry, the mental fatigue that comes from heavy use of AI tools. The people who love agents most complain about it loudest. 📊 My own logs look like a conveyor belt. In 70 days of Claude Code I switched sessions every 4.5 minutes, my agents waited 7.8 minutes for me, and my prompts shrank from 18 words before noon to 13 after 6 pm. 🧠 It hits three things at once. Too many open threads overflow working memory, unfinished tasks keep nagging, and with the easy parts handed to agents, the whole day becomes hard thinking. 🍅 What I’m trying: a Pomodoro-inspired day. It worked for me before agents, so I’m betting on it again, with one problem per pomodoro whatever the tools, real breaks and everything else written down for later. 🌙 Stop at 6 pm and park every session. A five-line note per session lets your head let go for the night. 🧰 I packed it into a free Claude Code plugin. unfry blocks prompts during breaks, brings stray thoughts back in your next session and nudges you to stop at six. Read full article at medium: https://medium.muz.li/ai-brain-fry-is-real-if-youre-exhausted-you-re-not-alone-c84083b54430