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# AI has absolutely skyrocketed my productivity
- URL: https://www.oliphonic.com/ai-has-absolutely-skyrocketed-my-productivity/
- Published: 2026-10-28T08:27:02.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-28T08:27:02.000Z
- Author: Oliphonic

I had a strange moment of clarity working in the office yesterday - AI has absolutely skyrocketed my productivity, it's **actually a bit scary.**

I kid you not I had all of this running **concurrently:**

- My enterprise chatGPT helping with an important email first draft
- My enterprise Claude doing some deep research on customer sentiment related to a project I'm working on
- My personal chatGPT working on [Chapters 9 & 10 of my AI-written PhD thesis](https://www.oliphonic.com/experiment-2-can-ai-write-me-a-phd-thesis/) \- set to 6.1 Sol Max
- ...and I was having a conversation/argument with Gemini on enterprise agentic capabilities

I was like this sort of **master orchestrator** \- effectively context switching between multiple different chat prompts whenever an AI had finished its assigned task. Reviewing the output, re-prompting, packaging up and using etc etc.

My next moment of clarity was that I noticed the limiting factor to my speed was **literally the rate at which I could type.** I'm not making this up. For the whole day I was limited by how fast I could type back re-prompts, new prompts etc.

I'm a fast typer as it is (thank god) but **wow** the limiting factor to how fast I can go is now my typing speed. Over the course of yesterday I probably typed on the order of 30-40,000 words.

By the end of the day, I'd achieved probably about 5x more than I've ever achieved in a single day before. I definitely had my weetabix for breakfast.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9c/fa/9cfabe9c-bcc0-471f-a6fa-271bee166fa4/content/images/2026/10/Oliver-Ascends-Through-the-Golden-AI-Cathedral.png)

## I think this is going to become the new normal...

AI has made me (much) faster, but I haven't got any less busy. I think that's because I'm effectively filling the void with... more work. Is that my own choice? Partially - although parts of what I fill it with I wouldn't consider work, they're fun (like writing this blog & doing my experiments). But it's certainly a common theme/paradox voiced across many people I speak to.

I also think being able to **prompt well** and interpret results such that you can amend them & re-prompt is a new & critical skill. It's not easy. You need to be able to critically evaluate, spot hallucinations & guide the AI to where you need it to get to.

So maybe I'll dig the ol' [Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing](https://playclassic.games/games/educational-dos-games-online/play-mavis-beacon-teaches-typing-online/?ref=oliphonic.com) back out of the loft. Forget learning more about AI, we've got to get faster fingers!!