Jonathan Swanson

And the machine will do

the more rote mechanical stuff.

And it's effectively the AI will become an assistant to the human assistant, which will increase their memory, allow them to work overnight, do all sorts of cool productivity things.

But our view is the human touch is real and is going to last for a long time, no matter how much some of the AI promoters would like to say otherwise.

But the combination is going to be a pretty cool thing.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, I think some of this expectation setting, I think some people think you just delegate and it works.

And that's not the real world.

The real world is you delegate and the first version doesn't work or it's not exactly what you wanted.

And then you give feedback and you do it again.

And the next time is a little better.

And you have to have a high tolerance for failure, for iteration.

But as long as you have a high tolerance for those things and you just continue compounding improvements, then it gets better and better over time.

But...

Yeah, I think like most things in life, there's no easy button.

You've got to invest in the partnership.

And we tell clients who work with us, if you just want to show up and want everything, your life to be perfect is not going to work.

You have to invest.

And the more you invest, the better your partnership will get.

And in fact, if you look at the best assistants at Athena, the kind of top 1%, they just so happen to work for the clients who are the best at delegating.