My entire workflow at work is so different than it was a year ago. Now whenever I am putting together almost any document for work, whether it’s a Word document or a presentation, I am doing almost all of it with Claude’s support. I have master prompts, projects, and agents set up to do work and think like me. The writing has gotten so much better for when I need certain message to have a certain tone. It’s actually a little creepy, but comforting that I can get so many of these tasks done so much quicker than I used to.

I was chatting with my friend today over lunch, and she was saying she has a manager who basically cannot think without Claude’s help. Whenever he is on calls or in meetings with her, he hears and sees almost nothing. He has to reference every suggestion she gives to Claude, either in real time or after, and then get back to her. He recently was trying to choose a real estate broker in the Bay Area to help him sell his house, and he recorded all the calls, then fed it through Claude and asked Claude to make the selection for him based on the recordings. It was a little insane. It was as though he had completely abandoned and/or lost his ability to think.

That’s the thing, though. AI is not supposed to replace our ability to think, to see, to feel. It’s supposed to assist us with tasks that we need help with but just need to be more efficient and thoughtful about. AI is never going to remember the really important, core human things. It can never truly be your friend. It’s not going to ask you how that presentation you were stressed about went. It’s not going to remember the funny story you told it five years ago. It’s not going to make you your favorite coffee drink because it remembered your preference and your exact specifications for brewing. I am embracing AI in my personal and professional life. But I’m certainly trying not to spend all my time with it, or pretend it’s going to replace all emotional needs.