Random thoughts of the day:

1. FFS why would you put the delete button two microns away from the archive button!!!
2. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” – Arthur C Clarke

In this context, the current set of AI tools are, relatively speaking, crude and rudimentary. Technologists talk about prompting and context windows, and tokens as if it were as exciting as the first season of LOST. CEOs are all in on AI because they see an opportunity to either increase 💰 or save 💰💰💰. Though I am of the belief that most CEOs couldn’t tell you how to connect to the company WiFi much less craft an AI strategy. But I reckon most people don’t see a ton of value in AI. Perhaps a good analogy is the BlackBerry or Palm Pilot. The only reason anyone carried one of these is because it was required for work or because it was a status symbol for pretentious aholes. See above, me 20 years ago. But the iPhone! There were lines straight up and down and around the corner and down the street at the Town Center when iPhones came out. It was magic.

Until Tim Cook or someone gets off their ass and builds a device or software that makes AI appear as though it were magic, no one is really going to be compelled to use it.