When AI Saves Minutes but Creates an Hour of Review
The system claims to save time, but every output needs checking. The work has moved from writing to reviewing, and nobody measured whether that was a trade worth making.
The recognizable symptom
People say the tool is useful while quietly maintaining a second process beside it. They copy outputs into spreadsheets, correct repeated errors, and learn to distrust anything that looks finished.
The mechanism underneath
The benchmark counts generation time and ignores review time. It also ignores the cost of repairing a wrong output after it reaches a customer, colleague, or public record.
What we built to contain it
We treat review burden as a first-class outcome. A faster draft is not a win if the verification queue grows faster than the draft queue. The test compares total cycle time, error severity, and the percentage of cases that can be accepted without repair.
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