HeyJaredThe Job Sh*t Show
Finding, keeping, and doing work is getting weird and I have questions.
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It’s Not My Fault—The AI Did It. (opens the original)
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My wife chats with Otis all the time—that’s what she calls her ChatGPT. I use Claude and exchange texts with Bank of America’s chatbot, Erica. Anton is a custom Notion-based agent I heard about, and Ava is another one. She’s a business development agent.Naming AI agents has become common. That, in itself, isn’t a problem. It’s cute and makes bots more approachable. But the practice is part of a bigger trend that is moving society in the wrong direction.<div class="subscripti
Is Everyone About to Become a Manager? (opens the original)
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Boris Berenberg, CEO of z0.ai, thinks cutting headcount is the least interesting thing a company can do with AI. I pitched him my theory that most management work is just routing information, and that AI will take it over. He disagreed, and his reason changed how I think about it.My biggest takeaway: AI isn’t getting rid of managers. It’s turning everyone into one.My core reframe: the debate about AI and managers treats management as just a job title - a layer on the org chart you can remove. Bo
AI said pineapple and cabbage is delicious. (opens the original)
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Fusion has been 30 years away for about seventy years. One problem is the plasma. It’s superheated, it has to float inside a magnetic cage without ever touching the walls, and it squirms.Scientists used AI to solve this previously unsolvable problem.This is how AI should be used—not to do old things faster—but to create entirely new solutions.The Job Sh*t Show is a reader-supported p
AI Can Replace Coordination. It Can’t Make People Feel Motivated. (opens the original)
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Jason Lauritsen, CEO of Connected Performance Group, just finished a study of almost 300,000 employees on what actually drives connection at work. I pushed him on the idea that AI will let companies cut out layers of management, and his answer went somewhere I didn't expect.My biggest takeaway: If AI can replace what your manager does, was your manager even really performing?My core reframe: we’ve spent years treating management as coordination, assigning tasks, tracking progress, running the me
What if the Hallucination is the Best Part of the Prompt? (opens the original)
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Michael Villegas, Director of Design Innovation at IA Interior Architects, tests generative AI daily on real projects. When we got into why people stop questioning what these tools hand back, he named the exact design choice he thinks is doing the damage.My biggest takeaway: If it behaved like a calculator, the expectations would actually be elevated in terms of what its capabilities are.My core reframe: we treat AI’s confident, human-sounding delivery as a relatable feature, but I think it's qu
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