Yes, Yes, Yes, keep going. All I do now is tap Yes. The plan? Skimmed it. The output? Glanced at it. Because it has to keep moving. Yes, next. This is the AI stampede I’m caught up in - and I’m supposed to keep up. But why, exactly?
It started harmlessly enough. The AI eats the tedious routine work first. Before long you’re handing over more and more complex tasks, running them in parallel. The agents take over, but you still have to sit there, following along, making sense of every step — if you can be bothered, or even understand what just happened in the time you’ve got.
And then you arrive at what I described up top: you stop reading the AI’s elaborate plans. You just tap Yes. Again and again. Yes. Yes. Let it run. Now you’re juggling multiple projects at once. All you do is switch windows and hit Yes. The model is clever enough — it’s got everything in context, in memory, it even corrects itself. Yes, yes, yes. Have a quick look, nudge something. Yes! Impressive stuff, proper magic — but somehow bland, because you never have time to actually learn the tricks, let alone master them.
But then, bit by bit, you start wondering whether there’s any point in being the one who taps Yes. You could just let the agents run to the end. Overnight. All day. That’s efficient. Saves money. But here’s the thing you don’t think about: it all happens without you. You’re not needed anymore. You’re gone. You — the early adopter, the AI pioneer! From doer to executor to spectator to night nurse to unemployed. Maybe you should slow down now, stop tapping Yes so readily, just to stay in the game? Strange times.