I think this goes one step further.
The real opportunity isn’t AI helping you run a side hustle. It’s AI agents taking over entire operational workflows, while you focus on product vision, judgment and understanding your users.
As an indie developer building multiple apps alongside a career in medicine, that’s the shift I’m most excited about.
The bottleneck is no longer just building software. It’s knowing what to build, reaching the right people and making good decisions.
Lately I’ve been learning math with ChatGPT (Astra) as my tutor, using this document scanning camera and a vibecoded tool that pastes the captured image right into the chat.
This way, I just work problems on paper and ChatGPT gives feedback. It’s really nice.
short-form doesn't make you forget. it makes the next step harder.
it's failing to carry out what you already meant to do —
start the ritual, put the phone down, leave the feed.
10 min of short-form + rapid switches taxes prospective memory.
twitter / youtube didn't show the same drop. (chi 2023)
10 minutes of TikTok was enough to impair people’s ability to remember and carry out intentions.
Twitter and YouTube didn’t show the same decline.
Rapid context-switching may be where most of cognitive cost is.