True! came to realise wasn't hitting one of my main objectives for writing my newsletter by outsourcing the writing of the first draft to Claude personal learning and development.
Rework rates is an interesting measure I hadn't yet considered. I'm noticing more and more people shipping plans, proposals, requirements etc without actually doing the review. And it's a huge waste of time to ask me to review it when it's clearly slop. We will start to see this show up in performance reviews but for now there is still the "forgive me" honeymoon period.
Delegation used to be expensive enough to force good judgment. Now it costs twenty dollars and nobody notices.
I really liked the distinction between using AI to reduce effort and using it to avoid thinking.
There are tasks where removing friction is obviously useful. But there are also tasks where the friction is the actual work.
If AI writes the first draft, researches everything and makes the final decision for you, you may finish faster while understanding less.
That feels like a productivity win until you have to own the outcome.
True! came to realise wasn't hitting one of my main objectives for writing my newsletter by outsourcing the writing of the first draft to Claude personal learning and development.
I feel this every time AI gives me a very convincing answer and I still end up arguing with it for ten minutes.
Rework rates is an interesting measure I hadn't yet considered. I'm noticing more and more people shipping plans, proposals, requirements etc without actually doing the review. And it's a huge waste of time to ask me to review it when it's clearly slop. We will start to see this show up in performance reviews but for now there is still the "forgive me" honeymoon period.
Using AI to avoid doing hard things will create an ever-deeper divide
Just because a $20 subscription can produce a draft doesn't mean the consequences of that draft are any cheaper.