"I’ve used AI to accelerate all my work, and yet, I’m still busy as ever. This is what I wrote about in Changing the AI narrative from liberation to acceleration. This notion that AI will do our work while we focus on other things … uh, yeah, that big chunk of time where Gemini does my work for me while I have time to daydream about system design and content architecture — that chunk of time never seems to materialize on my calendar. My days (which are often meetingless, actually) are filled with an endless queue of doc requests, needed updates, release notes, new features to document, and more.

So maybe as we peer into the future, signs of how it will play out are already present. It’s a bit like watching children grow up — the personality traits visible in the toddler years turn out to be the same ones you see in the adult. Five years from now, we might look back and say, why didn’t we see what was so clearly right there?

What is the pattern of the present? Acceleration, being busier than ever, all while using AI more than ever. If I instead noticed the opposite, a kind of winding down of my own activity and involvement while AI gradually takes on more and more of the activity of my day, that would tell a different story. The paradox is that AI is taking on more activity, but it’s pulling me along with it. I’m an active collaborator, shaping conversations, providing context, evaluating outputs, running verification, deciding the approaches, and so on. AI augments and accelerates our work rather than replacing it. We have the most powerful tools available to us, more so than at any time previously. Is it any wonder that we’re now building skyscrapers instead of doghouses, and that those skyscrapers require a lot of work?"

https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/nobody-knows-two-years-from-now

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