How do we quantify increased productivity when the productive work that is being done is work that we wouldn't have done in the past and don't sell or share?

Apple podcast app never has the podcasts downloaded ahead of time. Isn't pre-downloading the audio the whole point?

The endurance of an AI Agent is so amazing when applied to working with big company customer support. They work through all deflections, will tolerate the intolerable chat support. Feels good that I can just have an agent suck up their time instead of mine.

Increasingly believe the future jobs will fall into one of two categories. Muse or Meatspace Worker. As models get more capable we will spend more of our time inspiring them to create what we need and want. The same progress will limit the need for our physical labor and that labor will likely get limited to the things that the models and robotics either cannot do or we do not trust to do. The Meatspace work will likely have a high premium and the Muses will subject to insane competition.

Ocean Beach San Francisco, six years ago yesterday.

I don’t know if Astra is AGI but it is the first model I have worked with that feels like I am working with a person and not a tool. The way it communicates and intuits what I say is the difference.

I found this o-ring in my driveway this morning. Not knowing what it belongs to has lived rent free in my head all day. What is wrong with me.

We will know when AI has gone mainstream because the conspiracy theories will be epic.