AI-assisted speed becomes a recalibrated performance baseline, making manual work feel slow and inadequate¶
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q2 i? As accelerated timelines normalize, sysadmins evaluate their own productivity against the GenAI-enabled baseline and perceive their pre-GenAI performance as inadequate. → Rana Abou Khamis 2026
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Rana Abou Khamis 2026¶
Rana Abou Khamis, Hala Assal, and Ashraf Matrawy. (2026). Unanticipated Effects of Generative AI on Expertise Pathways and Performance Perception in System Administration. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28650 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2607.28650
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Interview theme on productivity perception: P2 found returning to manual research felt "emotionally... bad" given the efficiency gap; P12 said GenAI "did boost my productivity" and "I cannot see myself working without AI."
"Even when doing work manually, participants evaluated their productivity against the accelerated baseline."
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Related Claims¶
- Sysadmins find GenAI most effective for accelerating routine tasks such as scripting, troubleshooting, and documentation — related
- Sysadmins shift from producing solutions to evaluating, correcting, and refining GenAI output, which still requires human expertise — related
- Generative AI can help people finish tasks more quickly but does not accelerate learning itself — related
- How genAI is used, not who uses it, predicts whether independent performance declines or improves — related
- GenAI use involves substantial hidden labor of prompting, verification, and correction that remains invisible in productivity evaluation — related
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AI-assisted speed becomes a recalibrated performance baseline, making manual work feel slow and inadequate |
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AI-assisted speed becomes a recalibrated performance baseline, making manual work feel slow and inadequate |
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