You Adopted AI to Save Time. So Why Do You Feel More Swamped Than Ever?

There's a word now for the thing that's been grinding you down. Botsitting: the hours you lose every week feeding context to AI, fixing its outputs, debugging broken automations, and switching between a stack of tools that don't talk to each other. Research from Glean's Work AI Institute suggests workers lose more than six hours a week to it - quietly consuming most of what AI was supposed to give back.

June 12, 2026 · By SAM TORRES