Why does automating everything lead to more human work? That's the question I asked last week in “After Automation”—an 8,000-word essay on the structural reasons behind this paradox—which quickly became our most viral piece of the year, driving the discourse on X with reactions from Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan), the AI Daily Brief (@AIDailyBrief), and Marc Andreessen (@pmarca). On this week’s AI & I, @every COO Brandon Gell and I unpack: - The structural reason automation creates more work…