Does AI sometimes make you feel productive without actually making progress?

Summary

I’ve been thinking about a weird downside of using AI. Sometimes it makes me feel productive because I get answers quickly, summaries instantly, or a clean draft in seconds. But later I realize I didn’t actually understand the topic better, make a better decision, or move the real work forward that much. It can create the feeling of progress before there is real progress. For example: reading AI summaries instead of thinking through the material generating drafts that still need heavy rewriting

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