I showered with my AI, and it was a horrible mistake. As the world gets more AI-friendly, and as we find more and more things to be productive about (and I don't want everything in my life to actually be productive), I have been testing and experimenting with AI usage in different contexts. And Codex live voice mode opened up new options for me. One time, instead of waiting to clean my apartment at the end of the day or on the weekend, I actually did it during the workday while I was dictating to Codex and processing tasks that I had to do. Another time, I had to fill out this form for my Apple Business account. And Codex did it all for me - it even found my W-9 on my laptop to pull my EIN. It completed the whole form so that I could run errands. Instead of being strapped to my computer and having to dig up all these files and numbers on my own, I could do double duty and get personal things off my plate without losing time. I use AI on walks. And importantly, it's not that I'm adding AI to the walks that I'm already doing (for that, I still prefer Sam Cooke or Hello Puzzlers). It's that I'm able to TAKE MORE WALKS that I wasn't able to before because of AI. So now, I might go on a walk at 4pm and process all the Slack messages that I didn't respond to or review a client contract. As a team, sometimes we even take team-wide walk breaks to work 1:1 with our AIs. BUT. I just tried one new workflow that I hated with the fury of a thousand suns. And that was trying voice mode while I was in the shower. It was effective in the sense that the AI could hear me well and could process tasks (unlike the Apple AI assistant who shall remain nameless, who can't hear me if a single pin is dropped in the background). Sure, there was a little annoyance when the phone had a permission pop-up and I had to reach my hand out of the shower to press it. But my biggest gripe was that I just hated the overall experience. Hated it. There are some parts of my life that I really don't want to add AI into right now. And it's really in those times where I allow my brain to dance off into the edges of my imagination, or truly relax and take time away from execution. And I just want this to be a reminder that we need space to be away from tech and just think and exist. That could be on a nature hike, or in the shower, or my favorite meditative place in the whole wide world (the middle of a car wash). There is no perfect optimization formula that is telling us that every minute of every day has to be AI-enabled. So I will no longer be showering with my AI and will stick to my rubber duck. Thank you.

Throw this into any agent and thank me later: “I need you speak more concisely and directly for me. Use bullet points when possible. Your job is to save me time and take things of my plate. And a HUGE component of that is brevity + clarity in communications. Make sure this is a pillar of our team”

the “uhh never mind i guess” or “???” shit i get when i don’t reply fast enough for you cretins puts me through a fucking wall. never mind the fact that you apparently can’t fucking read my tweets cuz i’ve made it clear i’m super sick right now. but no grace for me! it’s you, a random dude on the internet who has never previously shown me support, i should be dropping everything for you, right??? you’re definitely the only thing on my plate rn huh?? none of you have a clue how hard i work, so do not ever give me an attitude, for any reason!!!. fuck you if you talk to sex workers like this and fuck you if you see no problem with it

Ok ye all. This is not AI, this is me. Seriously. I got a friend to take this photo cause i knew you wouldn't believe me. But here is me talking to my chief of staff @bot while on the beach. Why? Cause I want to show you that this can be used anywhere and at anytime. I was telling my non tech friend about it, another working mum, and she didn't believe me so I had to show her and she was so impressed. Here is what I did. I was sent a conference weblink on whatsapp by @farisaziz12 for @zurichjs. I don't have time to read these things so pasted it into my chief of staff. It gave me a summary of what it was about, updated my calendar with the speaker dinner and other info that I need to know but don't need in my head right now. It then went a step further and seen my calendar had no flights in for this conference so the travel bot went and found flights and sent the message back to chief of staff. I have flights but.... they are not on my calendar so I told chief of staff to check my emails. It did and added them to my calendar. It then told me that the conference is organizing transfers and would I like it to email the conference with my flight details. I said yes and it went ahead and emailed them. At first I was like, is this real? Accurate? Well I thought if it wasn't then Faris would ping me and say hey what is going on here but instead a few seconds later I got an email from Faris saying thank you, making a note. So yeh I know this is kinda too hard to believe that it simply just works so well but ask Faris and am sure he will verify that this morning (before I took this photo) he got the email from probably a much more polite version of me. haha. I spent less than 5 minutes looking at my phone and got this off my plate so I could just enjoy the beach. Which I did. I have so many other little things that I need to take care of and am gonna keep sending them to my bots cause seriously this is amazing and I really do think you all got to try it to see for yourself.

The barrier for non-technical people using coding agents was never the interface. Chatting is the easiest UI ever invented The barrier is that they don't know what to ask for. The blank chat box assumes you already know what's possible. Most people don't. When I tried Town, I was impressed by its onboarding process where the agent proactively suggested workflows & things it can take off my plate, rather than waiting for me to give instructions