Kevin Roose - Guest
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first heard Dec 2025
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I'm just hearing the craziest stories about how people are incorporating this stuff into their work life.
The programmers I talked to,
Because these tools have gotten quite good at writing code, they'll tell me like, I don't even really code anymore.
I just supervise and orchestrate kind of this little team of AI coders.
And my job is sort of reviewing their output and stepping in when necessary.
But basically, I sort of like set them off on a task and then I go make myself a cup of coffee.
I think it depends.
You know, in the study that I mentioned, companionship was not one of the sort of top usage categories.
But I think that maybe undercounts the number of people who actually do feel somewhat attached to these products on an emotional level.
Maybe they wouldn't go so far as to say, like, I have an AI relationship.
boyfriend or I have an AI friend, but they sort of rely on this stuff.
I'm thinking in particular of conversations I've had recently with young people who say like, oh yeah, I talk about chat as if it's just my friend, even though they know it's not a human, but they do feel connected to it.
So I think there's also a big generational piece of this.
I am an adult.
I have...
too many human friends to keep up with.
But I think if you're a teenager, this stuff is coming on really strong and really fast.
And I think that's one of the most underappreciated parts of this AI revolution is that a year or two ago, barely any teenagers would have said, I have an AI friend.
And now something like half of teenagers are regular users of these AI companion products.
I think that line is blurring.
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