This post really resonated with me - I’ve been having similar thoughts recently.
That’s why I found the final paragraph to be a bit of a shock - “ More important: it’s freeing me up to do human stuff like write and reflect right now.”
What? How? This doesn’t follow from the rest of the post at all. Maybe your new less frenetic and more human scale AI usage would be a good subject for the next post.
Hi, thanks for reading and your comment. Reviewing now, I can see why the final paragraph might have read this way.
What I was hoping to convey in the last two paragraphs was that I was trying to be thoughtful with where I use AI (work project where I did the initial thinking and setup and the agent does a lot of review and aggregation and reports back) and where I don’t (reflecting and writing). And the hope is that if I pay more attention to my values and priorities, I will make better decisions about my goals and how to achieve them, and maybe I’ll get more value out of both the tech and the process.
None of this is strictly new or limited to effects of AI. There has always been a process vs outcome calculus. But some of the parameters have changed in the past few years and I think we need to adjust.
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This post really resonated with me - I’ve been having similar thoughts recently.
That’s why I found the final paragraph to be a bit of a shock - “ More important: it’s freeing me up to do human stuff like write and reflect right now.”
What? How? This doesn’t follow from the rest of the post at all. Maybe your new less frenetic and more human scale AI usage would be a good subject for the next post.
Hi, thanks for reading and your comment. Reviewing now, I can see why the final paragraph might have read this way.
What I was hoping to convey in the last two paragraphs was that I was trying to be thoughtful with where I use AI (work project where I did the initial thinking and setup and the agent does a lot of review and aggregation and reports back) and where I don’t (reflecting and writing). And the hope is that if I pay more attention to my values and priorities, I will make better decisions about my goals and how to achieve them, and maybe I’ll get more value out of both the tech and the process.
None of this is strictly new or limited to effects of AI. There has always been a process vs outcome calculus. But some of the parameters have changed in the past few years and I think we need to adjust.
I think you misunderstood; the point was that not being constantly in front of Claude or another LLM is what has freed OP up.
That is, stepping away from the laptop is what has given them back some free time and brain space.
And I think the missing piece is what prevents this new workflow from eventually turning back into the same productivity ouroboros
It isn’t writing the post. It’s doing research, providing background knowledge, evidence, etc… but the work is being done by OP.
That was my read, anyway.