Companies are set to spend about $206.5 billion this year on AI that does the work for you.
Sara runs a small candle shop online, and she has a full-time job on top of it. Every evening around nine she sits down for the same two hours. She answers supplier emails, opens three shipping websites to compare prices, types the winners into a spreadsheet by hand, and then books the cheapest one.
She uses AI too, but only the way most people do. She pastes in a rough email, asks for a nicer version, copies the answer and goes back to clicking.
Her friend Imran has worked in operations at a logistics company for eleven years, and one night he sat and watched the whole routine. He asked why she was still doing every click herself. Sara said the AI could only write words. Imran laughed and told her that was last year’s version, and that a newer kind opens the pages, fills in the forms and checks the prices on its own.
Then he added the part that made her put her laptop down. He said the same software that could finish her evening could also take a wrong step at machine speed, with nobody watching.
Here’s every tool he showed her, every number he checked and every limit he found 🧵
Amazon says robots now help handle three out of every four of its orders.
A guy has worked in an Amazon warehouse for seven years. He started as a picker, walking miles a day between shelves, scanning items and filling bins. Over time, the building changed around him. First, the shelves started coming to him on small orange robots, instead of him walking to the shelves. Then a new machine arrived at the station next to his, an arm that picked things off a conveyor and placed them in a bin. Last month, it picked an item he’d have sworn only a person could grip. He stood there, watching, with a strange feeling he couldn’t name. He wasn’t angry. He just wasn’t sure where he fit.
He told the story to a friend who spends his days repairing and tuning the machines inside warehouses. A robot maintenance technician with ten years of experience, he’d worked in a few different fulfillment buildings and seen what robots do well and what they get stuck on. He listened to the whole thing, then asked the guy a question.
Did he know what the machine in front of him was actually called?
The guy said he just called it the arm.
The technician said that was the first thing to fix. If you want to understand where your job is going, you start by learning what’s in your building.
He spent the evening explaining each robot, what it does, what it can’t do and what the numbers really say.
Here’s everything he told me 🧵
6. Doesn’t rush to the finish
Take your time. Pull back when she’s close, then go again.
She’ll remember the guy who made her wait, not the one who hurried.
Man: I'm sexually attracted to you.
Woman: I'm attracted to you too, but my rent is due, I need to get my hair done, I haven't eaten since last week, I need a new bag, new clothes, and money for maintenance.
What men think “rough sex” is:
・Nonstop spanking
・Pounding away at full speed
・Trying every position they’ve seen in porn in one night
What girls think “rough sex” is: ↓
What men think “rough sex” is:
・Nonstop spanking
・Pounding away at full speed
・Trying every position they’ve seen in porn in one night
What girls think “rough sex” is: ↓
・Only the tip rubbing at my entrance, not going in until I say, “Please, put it in”
・A long kiss without moving, staying deep inside me
・Right after I come, whispering in my ear, “We’re not done yet”
・Afterward, suddenly stroking my head gently