On the right half of my screen I’m writing this, on the left Claude is working. I’ve heard a lot of complaints from friends and co-workers feeling exhausted after a day prompting sandpeople. It’s taxing to context switch so much I think. Many times I go inside the messages to see what it is actually doing. I wish this were more transparent, a bit like what Cursor does in which you can see the changes happen in real time.

Claude is done, let’s review.

This morning I had breakfast with V and then we said farewell as we each head to our workplace. I walked to the bike station encountering an attractive woman (“not the kind you’d introduce to your mother” some people would say). I assume she goes to the gym at that hour, because our paths have crossed numerous times.

I arrived to work and debated if I should first land at my desk, or if I should first drop-off my lunch in the fridge (executive decisions). Thinking: it will be better if my co-workers see I arrive 30 seconds earlier, I went to the desk and pulled out my computer. Then I thought: I ought to prompt Claude before storing lunch and serving myself coffee. I’m working on a complex user-facing billing system my boss created and now it needs a cleanup. They plan to release today, but I don’t see how I can get this ready-for-release in half a day, but who knows!

Yesterday I told V: you need to get a personal AI account. I know it seems the work account will do, but we are timid asking personal questions knowing this artificial mind is organizational. “It’s like when we were young, it’s a leap of faith our parents took when they bought computers. You didn’t quite understood what it was for, but you discovered how to use it along the way”. She said her parents didn’t have that foresight, but an uncle did, and it was through this computer that her interest in computing was piqued.

I know I was a laggard and that my use of AI among my peers might be considered “basic”. It’s fortunate that I have a good understanding of web development, and I’ve seen this with my designer co-worker who is well versed in databases—development knowledge is still tremendously useful. But when we arrive to the future we will wonder how people did the jobs of the machines, just like we are in awe of someone who can program in assembly code.

Hours later I’m pretty well advanced. The lack of writing inbetween was due to me chatting with co-workers about related stuff. Yesterday I was telling V: I believe the only way in which we are not getting fired is by making our own jobs redundant. And once you’ve made your own job redundant, invent yourself a new job that you can also make redundant. I don’t know the second order effects of this, perhaps I will be fired along with millions who have also made their jobs redundant. The march there is inevitable and the solution still unknown. Even with a wealth redistribution mechanism people would suffer an identity crisis, we identify with our jobs and many people without a job feel like a nobody in this world.

I’ve written all I’ve wanted for today, it’s just after lunch. Let’s continue work.