Jeffrey: AI automating routine tasks causes burnout through nonstop cognitive load
Corey Jeffrey · Building High-Growth Tech Ventures in the AI Era with Kory Jeffrey of Inovia Capital · Aug 27, 2026 · at 42:15
Inovia Capital partner Corey Jeffrey explains how AI productivity tools eliminate routine cognitive downtime for software engineers.
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“When in computer science, often you'll hear people say like, hey, like maybe I'm a system design architect, right? And I, my job is to think about like what the big distributed system is going to look like in Google search. Well, you don't spend every minute of every day doing that. Like when you, when your brain needs a break, you start writing the test cases, right? You start writing some, like you start to do some monotonous cleanup work that you would do. Well, that's gone, right? So now all of your time is spent on this, like, Heavy, heavy cerebral load, but nobody can do that for, you know, 12 hours a day consistently. That's impossible.”
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