My father grew up on a farm, he said the work never ended. Dairy farms are worse. Cows must be milked 2x a day, every day. No vacations. No breaks. This doesn't count everything else (cleaning, feeding, medical, breeding etc) you do every day.

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IMO one of the most useful ways to think about LLM use-cases is "Would someone in Star Trek use the ship's computer to do this? If they did, would the episode be about how that's a lame thing to do?"

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You can absolutely imagine the episode where Jake has a writer friend who's doing that, and Jake tries it once and feels gross, and then he convinces his friend to believe in the beauty and power of their own human creativity and never ask the computer to write for them again

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A lesson I feel like I’m only internalizing after 2 decades of academic work—& even so, unevenly—is that you’ll never be "caught up." That one thing that, once you just finish it, you’ll have more time? You won’t—more tasks will emerge in the interim. If something’s important, make time to do it now

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Claude is amazing. Just two years ago, my youngest was crying all the time and acting like a baby. But then Claude came out and now she’s crying less and acting more like a toddler.

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