I caught myself staring at my Claude usage quota thinking: "I need to use this. But for what?"

Not because I had a problem to solve. Not because I had an idea to explore. Just... pressure. A quiet feeling that if I wasn't actively using AI, I was falling behind.

And that's just the first layer.

The second one is harder to admit. I'm experimenting with AI tools, building workflows, hosting a podcast about it, trying to keep up with every new release. All in parallel. All at once. And the honest truth? AI is moving faster than I can absorb it.

New models. New capabilities. New things I "should" be trying. The list grows faster than I can check things off. That's not productivity. That's a treadmill.

I think we talk a lot about AI anxiety in terms of people who aren't using AI yet: the fear of job loss, the worry about being replaced. But there's another version that not many people talks about. The anxiety of people who are using it. The ones experimenting, learning, building... and still feeling like it's not enough.

Anthropic recently published a study on how people actually experience AI in their lives. The findings hit close to home. This week on The Human in the Loop, I dig into what they found. Don't miss it!