Are AI tools making things easier or are they just changing the type of work that needs to be done

I have noticed that AI tools make it very easy to come up with a lot of ideas or ways to do things very quickly. For example, if you are working on a side project or even just a simple plan, you can now come up with a lot of different ideas in a matter of minutes instead of spending hours thinking about one. At first, it look like a clear way to get done. But in reality, it often leads to a different kind of work, like looking over outputs, weighing options and deciding what is really worth doing. Sometimes, that decision layer feels like work than the work itself.