Interesting read from Google on AI (Gemini) usage. In particular, I found the usage in the "hands on" aspects - mechanics using AI to help diagnose problems, for instance.

Wolfstreet summary of it: https://wolfstreet.com/2026/07/23/ai-may-not-cause-total-job...

AI seems to help with tasks that should have been simplified and have accidental complexity, at least that's how I read:

AI usage outside of work appears particularly high for high-friction adminis- trative tasks. ATLAS data covers a broad set of activities outside of work, and we find that a handful of high-friction professional and bureaucratic activities exhibit significant over-representation in the data relative to the actual time spent on them. These activities include interactions related to government services, legal topics, finance, and education.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020335