3 Things I Learned Last Week #107 – AI Won’t Steal Your Job… But It Might Steal Your To-Do List

Welcome to the 107th edition of “3 Things I Learned Last Week”! 🌟

We’re about to embark on a knowledge rollercoaster that’ll make your brain do backflips. This newsletter is like a box of chocolates, except instead of calories, you’re getting juicy tidbits of wisdom that’ll make you the smartest cookie at your next Zoom happy hour.

Here’s what I’ve cooked up for your grey matter this week:

1. AI’s Job Impact: Less “Terminator,” More “Personal Assistant”
2. Claude 3.7: The AI That Thinks in Sonnets (Sort of)
3. AI-Powered Coding: When Robots Build Slack (No, Not the Lazy Kind)

Let’s dive in faster than your Uncle Bob at an all-you-can-eat buffet!

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🤖 AI’s Impact on Jobs: Less Skynet, More Synergy

Worried AI’s gonna steal your job? Relax, it’s not here to replace you – it’s here to make you look good in meetings.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• AI’s like that eager intern who does all the boring stuff so you can focus on looking important.
• It’s not eliminating jobs, it’s eliminating the parts of your job you hate. (Looking at you, TPS reports.)
• The key to survival? Be more human than the robots. They can’t replicate your ability to take 3-hour lunch breaks.

🎥 Watch AI pretend to be interested in your career here.

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🤔 Claude 3.7: The Shakespeare of Silicon Valley

Meet Claude 3.7, the AI that’s so smart it makes Siri look like a speak-and-spell. Its “Thinking Mode” is basically what happens when you give a supercomputer an existential crisis.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Claude’s “Thinking Mode” is like watching a genius solve a Rubik’s cube while juggling chainsaws.
• It uses “parallel thought processes,” which is a fancy way of saying it argues with itself until it’s right.
• It’s transparent about its thought process, unlike your ex who “just needs some space.”

🎥 Watch Claude 3.7 contemplate the meaning of life (and your coding queries) here.

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💻 AI-Powered Coding: When Robots Build Slack

Imagine if you could build Slack without the endless coffee and existential dread. Well, Claude 3.7 and Cursor Agent just did that, and they didn’t even need a foosball table.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Claude 3.7 is like that idea guy at parties, but its ideas actually work.
• Cursor Agent is the coding equivalent of autocomplete for your whole life.
• AI tools make coding so fast, you’ll have time for a social life. (Results may vary.)

🎥 Watch robots build Slack faster than you can say “standup meeting” here.

That’s all, folks! If your brain isn’t sizzling with newfound knowledge, you might want to check your pulse.

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May your week be filled with more “aha!” moments than “oh no…” ones!

Yours in perpetual bemusement,

~ Nathan

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