Are AI Tools Actually Making Us Productive — or Just Giving Us Something New to Play With?

I want to describe a completely ordinary hour from my week, because I suspect it's your week too. A scene from my actual workday I'm building a small feature. I open my AI chat — Claude on this particular day, but it rotates — and ask it to draft the data model. Great answer. I copy it into my editor. I tab back and ask for the API route. Good answer. Copy, paste, tweak the parts that don't fit…