Here's a challenge for heavy AI adopters: try to work one day (just one day) without any AI assistance. Zero.
Whether you succeed or not, pay attention to how you feel, and to how your brain tries to trick you into using it "just this once." Do with that info what you want.
- A better analogy would be using a calculator to add two 2-digit numbers. And no, people using their own brains to do simple math don't look idiosyncratic. They look perfectly normal...Unfortunately, I think that in the near future, not using LLMs to write for you will be like someone refusing to use Google Maps for directions in a new city. A bizarre idiosyncratic choice that's just completely incomprehensible to the vast majority of people.
- I just canceled my @Medium subscription. For a while now, every article on Medium feels like it was written by the exact same person. I can't even finish an article anymore because that feel that every author has an identical voice is so distracting and annoying.
- I keep hearing the "software engineering productivity" mantra, but either it's not true, or we're wasting all that increased productivity. I don't see any results. The software I use every day hasn't improved dramatically in the past year. In fact, it's stagnant.Ken Griffin just asked the question everyone in AI is too scared to answer. Data center spending in the US this year alone is over $500 billion. Half a trillion dollars. To raise that kind of money, you have to make a promise. And the promise has to be big. "AI needs to be your



