Sovra

Matter, Energy & Intelligence

AI saves you time from doing things you don't want to do. This gives you time in two ways: - Time back from not doing things you don't want to do - Time back from wasted energy trying not to do the thing you don't want to do Because AI is so insanely powerful and capable across thousands of domains, the chance that it's useful in helping you do something you've always wanted to do is very high. It's also super fun to work with. And because humans inherently love to create, and AI happens to be the ultimate helper in creation, it means humans are spending more time creating than they otherwise would have. So AI really does save you time - it saves you time doing shit you didn't like doing, and enables you do spend time doing things you actually wanted to do.

Curious how has coding changed for you in the last ~1 year. Is anyone using VSCode anymore? Cursor? Claude code? How much of your day is spent coding vs prompting. What do you do when the AI is coding? Do you parallelly start multiple tasks? Are you more productive?

“We might call what’s going on now ‘taste-washing,’ an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism.”

AI is supposed to save me time, but now I find myself building stuff all evening and weekend and it's actually increasing my time in front of the computer WTF

this week's column is for all my taste bros out there