"This creates a peculiar new kind of fatigue, the fatigue of supervision: of holding the intent in your head while the machine generates volumes of mostly-correct output that still needs your eyes..."

Douwe put it well: he used to get a dopamine hit from collaborating with a real person on a cool feature in open source. Helping someone become better at their craft. Now, he said, "everything I write goes into some AI black hole. There's no person on the other side actually learning anything." That loss is real and it's worth naming.