https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-agentic-individuals-future-of-work/
Wired asks us “are you agentic enough”? This is yet another form of FOMO. OMG! Am I not keeping up with the Jones? With the smarties at the end of the hall, or in the other building who are “playing” with their new AI BFFs?
Well, I am not. At least, only a little. I don’t have an agent, nor have I built one (my sister has), but I am asking questions of Claude, and finding out what Claude can and cannot do, and checking the work.
Claude is certainly confident, and month over month, seems to make fewer mistakes. To wit:
- Claude has taken a handful of PDF’s and summarized them for me, and abstracted numbers from specific fields and put them in a spreadsheet correctly.
- Claude has taken several hours of transcripts and summarized them into a couple of pages, taking conversations and turning them into a curated family history
- Claude has let me explore informatics writings and consider different viewpoints as I ask questions and get prompted with complementary ideas
I have resisted using Claude for writing blog posts. I believe I still have some responsibility for being a human here.
What about you? How are you dipping your toe into AI?
