AI Agents Were Supposed to Ease Founders' Load. Now They're Pulling All-Nighters.
The AI agents sold to founders as a cure for burnout are now their most demanding bosses. Keel co-founder Aditya Sharma went to bed at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter spent supervising bots that build features, run research, and watch marketing. The productivity FOMO cuts hard against the industry claim that automation eases the load. Some founders now log 90-hour weeks just keeping pace with their own fleets.