All posts tagged: Thinking

Two women collaborate at a desk with a laptop in a bright workspace, surrounded by colorful sticky notes on a glass wall.

The Most Dangerous Thing About AI Might Be How Much Effort It Still Feels Like

Published by Trotzendorff

The first time I spent an entire after­noon work­ing with AI, I closed my lap­top with that strange­ly sat­is­fy­ing feel­ing of hav­ing done hard intel­lec­tu­al work. My brain felt cooked. I had com­pared mod­els, refined prompts, rewrit­ten out­puts, test­ed work­flows, chased bet­ter phras­ing, dis­card­ed entire approach­es. It felt intense. Dense. Productive.

A barista carefully pulls a lever on a chrome espresso machine while preparing a shot of coffee, as a colleague watches in the background inside a café.

To Taste Everything

Published by Trotzendorff

»Dump the first espres­so of the day.« That was the advice, I saw in a reel the oth­er day. A guy stand­ing in a spot­less kitchen, speak­ing with qui­et author­i­ty. No dra­ma, no irony. Just a clean instruc­tion. Even if you sin­gle dose. Even if you weigh your beans to the tenth of a gram. The cof­fee sit­ting in the dead space of the grinder overnight will have oxi­dized. It will dull the shot. It is not worth drinking.