Cal Newport

It'll be good enough.

It'll be good enough.

You're like, oh, okay, I can smooth over.

I use this analogy in a New Yorker piece last year.

It's like it takes...

your effort graph looks like spikes, like an EKG or something like that.

And AI smooths over those peaks.

And so you don't have to, your peak concentration required can come down.

Like, well, you can fill the blank page and then maybe I have to work with it a little bit, but that's easier than doing it from scratch.

But the stuff being produced is no good.

And so I feel like WorkSlop

It's almost less of a critique of AI than it is AI making obvious a problem with the way we were already working.

I think that's what's going on there.

I think this is even happening with computer programmers.

This is considered heretical right now.

I guess I'm used to being yelled at.

People are really excited by...

this workflow where I have seven or eight cloud code agents going concurrently producing code and testing them and I'm just a manager of all these different processes and they're all producing this code on my behalf and it feels really cool and interesting like this has to be the future.

I don't know that that is.

I mean, I don't know the context.