The Silent AI Tax: 2 Hours a Day You’re Losing Without Noticing

Best Prompt Framework for Non-Technical Teams: C.R.A.F.T.

Mohamed Bakry

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Jan 19, 2026

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The real cost isn’t what you pay… It’s what you repeat.

You’re not “bad at AI.”

You’re just paying a tax you can’t see.

Not in dollars.
In minutes.

Tiny edits.
Rewrites.
Re-explaining the same background.
Fixing confident nonsense.
Copying a “good prompt” from last week and wondering why it suddenly fails today.

By the end of the day, it adds up.

Not because AI is slow.
Because your workflow is leaking time.

The moment I realized AI wasn’t saving time, it was billing me

I used to feel productive with AI.

I’d open ChatGPT for a “quick” task:

• Write a sales email
• Summarize a meeting
• Draft a proposal
• Generate social posts
• Prepare a client pitch