Humour at the Edge of Exhaustion
Reflections on DEAR AI, WTF? Surviving Modern Life with a Little Help from AI Sarcasm by Hashem Koohy
Some reflections on modern life arrive as analysis.
Others arrive as confession.
DEAR AI, WTF? chooses a different language altogether: humour sharpened by fatigue, irony shaped by burnout, and dialogue framed through an imagined conversation with artificial intelligence.
What emerges is not a technical book about AI, nor a conventional self-help guide.
Instead, it becomes a compact meditation on the emotional atmosphere of the present moment—
productivity without rest, connection without depth, information without clarity, and resilience sustained more by habit than hope.
What This Book Is Really About
At its surface, the book reads as a series of witty exchanges and reflections filtered through AI sarcasm.
Beneath that tone lies a quieter inquiry:
How does it feel to remain human inside systems that rarely slow down enough to notice?
Burnout here is not treated as personal weakness but as a structural condition of contemporary life—
where expectations accelerate faster than meaning, and where humour becomes one of the last safe forms of truth-telling.
The conversational presence of AI functions less as technology and more as a mirror:
sometimes supportive, sometimes absurd, often unsettlingly honest.
Who Should Read This Book
Readers navigating modern fatigue
Those living inside constant deadlines, notifications, and invisible pressure may recognise
their own thoughts in the book’s ironic voice.
Thinkers curious about the emotional side of AI
Rather than asking what AI can do, the book asks what AI reveals about us—
our loneliness, our dependence on optimisation, and our search for reassurance in machines.
Anyone who suspects humour is a form of survival
Here, sarcasm is not dismissal.
It is a quiet strategy for staying intact when certainty disappears.
Why This Book Matters Now
In an era increasingly defined by intelligent systems,
much discussion focuses on capability, efficiency, and disruption.
Far less attention is given to how these transformations feel from the inside.
DEAR AI, WTF? occupies that missing space.
Its value lies not in solving burnout or explaining technology,
but in naming the confusion, frustration, and fragile endurance that many people carry silently.
Sometimes clarity begins not with answers,
but with the relief of recognising that the question itself is shared.
Final Reflection
If technology is reshaping how we work, think, and relate,
then humour may be one of the last languages that keeps the human voice audible within the noise.
DEAR AI, WTF? does not promise resolution.
It offers something quieter:
the possibility that being understood—even sarcastically—
is already a form of survival.