Penguin has moved up the publication date of my new book with Patchen Barss called "Smarter Than Us". The book explains how AI works for a non-technical reader and then talks about the myriad risks and what to do about them.
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We’ve lost an icon. Margaret Hamilton, a computer science pioneer best known for her work at MIT leading development of the flight software for the Apollo missions to the moon, has died at 90. Read about her legacy via MIT News: https://t.co/ODkbdIsoHw
The real pain of the AI revolution: my personal assistant saves me time, but replacing it every two weeks is a full-time job.
It started when I saw the potential of having an AI agent as a personal assistant.
I built something myself with OpenClaw. I was pretty happy until I realized I was spending too much time maintaining the thing that was supposed to save me time.
So I switched to Claude.
Great tool, but eventually it felt a little slow, a little expensive, and the experience of running it remotely wasn’t ideal.
So I switched to Instinct.
And I loved it. Suddenly, my assistant could book restaurants and manage my calendar. Exactly what I wanted.
Except it needed a lot of permissions, and the AI security guy in me struggled to hand a young startup the keys to my entire life.
So I switched to Muse.
Connected it to everything. Taught it about me. Explained how I work, what I like, and what I need. Configured, corrected, refined.
After a week or two, I was happy. Finally, an assistant that knows me, with everything working.
And today, OpenAI released dot.
Now I’m looking at my assistant the way I look at my iPhone the day after Apple announces a new one.
I love technology. I love trying things early. But every switch means investing time all over again: rebuilding context, reviewing permissions, changing habits. Just as that investment starts paying off, something new arrives and the FOMO kicks in.
What does being an early adopter even mean when, by the time you finish setting up the product, you’re already a legacy user?
And when do we actually get to enjoy all the time we’ve saved?
At this rate, I’m going back to a human assistant. At least she won’t become legacy by the time I finish introducing myself.
At some point in evolutionary history, matter learned to feel. We don't know how. It wouldn't be scientific to dismiss the possibility that it could happen again.
(I don't believe it happens in current AI systems, because they don't have the charactistics I would expect to see in a sentient agent)
…and confirm that everything works as expected on the flight by running it. In cases where you cannot run every possible scenario, like often in ML, you may occasional run into bugs that you can’t even explain, because you simply did not read the source code 🤣
AI has gotten good at coding, like really good. On the other end the pace of implementation is frightened now. You generate much more code than you can review, me personally I’ve been battling with that (today actually). I used to review every function written by AI assistants…
A habit from back when they could only implement simple module 3 years ago, now in big 2026 agents can implement a whole framework in 30 minutes, and I just can’t review 37+ code files before moving on with my experiments so I have to rely on unittest.