Her work diary writes itself because the agent is the one doing the work
A German business consultant stopped keeping her time spreadsheet by hand in October 2026: since the AI does much of the work with her, it also keeps the log, writing into her running 'current state' document after every work block what was finished, where it lives and what she decided, tagged with one of four categories (revenue, acquisition, building, admin), a duration, and who actually worked, her or the AI. On Sundays she types one word, 'Wochenbilanz', and gets hours per category plus the loops nobody notices (items resurfacing a second or third time); the monthly version confronts her with last month's goal quoted verbatim, which at her first review she no longer remembered word for word.
How it works
- After each work block the AI appends to the state document: finished item, location, decision, category, duration, and who worked
- Sundays she writes 'Wochenbilanz'
- The AI totals hours per category, lists completions and flags recurring loops
- Three reflection questions follow, one per message
- At month start, five number questions (including per-client hours versus what each paid, from her invoice list) and seven reflection questions
- Her answers become the plan, which the AI records but does not write
Why it’s worth knowing
Time tracking normally fails because logging is extra work; here the log is complete precisely because the agent being tracked is the one writing it, including which hours were the machine's, not hers.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on projektschmiederei.de. See the original ↗