Your first Dispatch arrives this Sunday. Here's what to expect — and a few things you can do right now to start feeling like yourself again.
It's a quiet, honest weekly letter for engineers who are tired of pretending AI isn't making their jobs harder.
No hype, no "10x engineer" nonsense. We cite real research and actual engineer experiences.
Cognitive science, attention research, sleep studies — applied to the specific hell of building software with AI.
Anonymous submissions from engineers across seniority levels — deeply relatable, often funny, always honest.
Not 47 tips. Not a thread. One thing you can actually do that week to feel less wrecked.
The Dispatch: 1 email per week. Read time: under 5 minutes. No ads, no tiered access, no dark patterns.
8 questions, 4 dimensions, one number that tells you exactly what's happening inside your burned-out engineer brain. Takes about 3 minutes.
Take the AI Fatigue Quiz →Immediate, no-commitment things that actually help. Pick one. Just one.
30 minutes of deliberate, unassisted coding. Rebuild the muscle memory AI has been quietly eating.
30 minAnonymous engineers sharing what AI fatigue actually feels like. You'll feel less alone immediately.
5 min readAmbient sounds and guided breathing. Because sometimes your nervous system just needs to hear rain instead of Slack pings.
5–15 minWe explored why engineers are increasingly feeling like they're managing AI tools rather than building with them — and what that shift is costing us professionally and psychologically. Plus: one reader's story about losing three days to an AI-generated rabbit hole that turned out to be entirely wrong.
Read past Dispatch issues →Practical, focused recovery delivered to your inbox one morning at a time. Day 1: a simple audit of where your attention has been going. Day 2: the 30-minute rule. Day 3: the conversation you need to have with your manager. Days 4–5: rebuilding. It adds up to less than one hour total, spread across five mornings.
Learn about the 5-Day Reset Course →