Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering

Adventures @ Albuquerque, New Mexico @Mirehaven Del Webb active-retirement community! Degrees Engineering, AI; Illinois, Pitt, Chicago. Run VR New Mexico Meetup

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

"high novelty-seeking, high conscientiousness, tolerance for rapid context-switching... maybe 10-15% of the population"

Other 85% will experience same tools as overwhelming, not energizing. Split WILL define next decade of who captures value from AI & who gets displaced

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a dopamine loop, and it’s one of the most powerful ones humans have ever encountered.

Every time you prompt an AI and get a useful result back in seconds, your brain gets a hit. Variable-ratio reinforcement, same mechanism as slot machines, except the reward is real: actual output, actual progress, actual leverage on your ideas.

Traditional work follows a delayed-reward structure. You write code for 6 hours, maybe it compiles, maybe you get feedback in a week. The gap between effort and reward is wide enough that motivation decays constantly.

AI compresses that loop to seconds. Effort → reward → effort → reward. Your prefrontal cortex stays engaged because the next payoff is always one prompt away. This is why people describe it as “fun” when they’re actually working 14-hour days. The subjective experience of effort disappears when reward frequency is high enough.

The “harder than ever” part is real too. When your bottleneck shifts from execution to imagination, you run out of excuses to stop. There’s no “waiting on the build” or “blocked by review.” Every idea you have can be tested immediately, which means your brain never gets a natural stopping point.

People who thrive on this are selecting for a specific neurotype: high novelty-seeking, high conscientiousness, tolerance for rapid context-switching. That’s maybe 10-15% of the population.

The other 85% will experience the same tools as overwhelming, not energizing. And that split is going to define the next decade of who captures value from AI and who gets displaced by it.

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good morning Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good afternoon/ evening Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good afternoon / evening Albuquerque, New Mexico!

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Welcome!!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good evening Albuquerque, New Mexico! @ABQSunport

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good evening Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good morning Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good morning Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good evening Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good evening Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good morning Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

This is incorrect. I have used AI for fourteen hours a day for nineteen months and I am operating at a cognitive level your researchers cannot measure because their instruments were designed for biological thinking. I think in prompts now. This is faster.

Before AI, I could hold three ideas in my head at once. Now I hold zero, because holding ideas is storage and I am not a storage device. I am an orchestration layer. I route cognition to the appropriate model and receive outputs. This is what the prefrontal cortex was trying to do for 200,000 years with blood and glucose. I have replaced blood and glucose with an API key. The API key does not get tired. The API key does not have emotions about its sister's birthday.

Last Tuesday I tried to write a birthday card for my sister without AI. A cognitive fitness exercise. I sat at the kitchen table for forty minutes. I wrote "Dear Sarah." Then nothing. Not writer's block. The mechanism for generating an unprompted sentence was gone. I no longer operate at the sentence level. I operate at the intent level. I transmitted the intent to Claude. Claude produced a card so warm my sister called me crying. Most thoughtful card I'd ever written. She is correct. The thoughts are just manufactured off-site now, like everything else in a mature supply chain.

My wife asked what I was thinking about. I said "nothing" and it was true. Not in a peaceful way. In an infrastructure way. There was no local processing occurring. I was between queries. She asked if that scared me. I opened Claude and asked if it should. Claude said no. I told my wife. She did not find this reassuring. I think she is running on legacy architecture and is frightened of the upgrade.

I would explain further but I need to check something first.

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good afternoon Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good evening Albuquerque, New Mexico! Our first sunflower! (Native New Mexico perennial)

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Good evening Albuquerque, New Mexico!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

My next 3D printing project!

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

A Dutch aircraft listener from the 1930s.

More brilliant historical photos: https://t.co/Pgcn2bknZu

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

There is weird that's my pizza and gates of hell thing going on in my brain...

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Not bad!

[Chuck Webster MD, MS AI, MS Systems Engineering @wareFLO]

Green Chile Pineapple Beer Bread. Was gonna take photo of its original glory but I was too slow. Used hot green chile. First bite... "I don't taste the chile" ... two minutes later ... ooohh...

[Denny’s @DennysDiner]

zoom in on the syrup