Christopher Mims

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246 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 30 Apr

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Something You Should Know · What AI Is Really Good At & That Feeling You Get When You Don’t Fit In · 30 Apr 2026 podcast

So when I'm typing, if I'm typing a specification for an AI that's going to create a program for me, I'm sitting there doing all the mental labor myself.

I've got the blank page in front of me, the most daunting thing in the world.

When I'm conversing with an AI, I can be like, hey, you know, I got this rough idea.

Help me think it through.

And of course, you're going to go back and forth.

Now, the difference is the AI is going to influence your thinking.

You have to be okay with that.

Here's the most concrete, most practical advice I can give anyone about AI today.

If you're not paying for AI, you are not experiencing AI as it exists today.

The free versions keep getting better, but when you start to pay for, it doesn't matter, Cloud, ChatGPT, Gemini, you are tapping into their best models,

You are always logged in.

So you are building the database that the AI has about you.

It's memory of what you're up to.

And you're able to start to connect it to other things on the internet.

For example, if you activate personal intelligence in Google,

and you're paying for a pro subscription, when you're having a conversation with it and you're starting to ideate, it'll say, Oh, you know, is this related to this thing that you're working on that I know about?

Because I can see every single one of your Google docs.

And frequently my answer is yes.

Thanks for reminding me.

That is a,

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