So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world’s white collar workforce (and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize the way we work, the way we interact with the world, the way we learn, the way we socialize, and all of this. This sounds great. Really, it does. Everything getting faster and easier would be an extraordinary boon to all of our lives.
Can we have a day off then?
If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in the before times, would have taken all week.
So can I just take Friday off? From here on out, I’ll work Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and then take Friday off. We can even declare Friday to be something like an “AI workers’ day;” on Thursday I promise I’ll work my ass off writing great prompts and then the agents can churn on them all day on Friday. In that case, you’d hardly even lose Friday, right?
And like, this would apply across the board, of course. So you, the board of directors, and the C-suite, you guys could take Friday off to go to play an entire 18 holes at the golf course. It’ll be beautiful, can you imagine? You don’t have to be in the office, because I’m not going to be in the office. You don’t have to be at the office, because the AI agents are there. And neither do I!
Just one extra day. Seems reasonable and quite a small change really, in light of the total world revolution across every swathe of human productivity.
(Yo, Elon: I’m trying to increase the fertility rate. Childcare for 3 small children is six thousand dollars a month here in California. Do I have to go into the office all five days this week? Why not four?)