Speed Isn’t Productivity: Why AI Makes the Hard Work Invisible

Originally posted on trent.ai on January 19th 2026. Friday musings from the uncomfortable edge of LLM efficiency. Over the last year, I’ve found myself circling the same unease in different conversations, with different people, in different contexts. It comes up when talking about large language models, about agents, about productivity, and inevitably about security. On the surface, everything fee