Does AI sometimes make you feel productive without actually making progress?

I’ve been thinking about a weird downside of using AI. Sometimes it makes me feel productive because I get answers quickly, summaries instantly, or a clean draft in seconds. But later I realize I didn’t actually understand the topic better, make a better decision, or move the real work forward that much. It can create the feeling of progress before there is real progress. For example: reading AI summaries instead of thinking thr