It’s a Sunday afternoon. I’m folding laundry properly.
At the same time, two different AI sessions are working away on the screen in front of me. One is updating the code for my BritGrid.com game to add a new country, Canada.
Another is rewriting measures and metrics for a Power BI table I’m building.
They are doing this independently. In parallel. Quietly. Relentlessly.
I’m not coding. I’m not writing DAX. I’m not debugging line by line.
I’m watching.
My actual jobs are simple:
- Keep the screen awake.
- Make sure the machine does not time out.
- Step in if something goes wrong.
- And fold the laundry properly.
It reminds me of an old joke about the future of aviation. In the cockpit there will be two things, a pilot and a dog. The dog’s job is to stop the pilot from touching the controls. The pilot’s job is to feed the dog.
Right now, the laundry feels like the dog. It keeps my hands busy, so I don’t interfere when I shouldn’t.
What’s striking is not just the speed. It’s the lack of constant human intervention. The work is coming to life because the intent was set clearly, and the context was strong enough. The supervision is light, but deliberate.
This is not automation replacing people. It’s delegation at a different altitude. The skill is no longer just “doing the thing”.
It’s knowing what to ask for. Knowing when to intervene. And knowing when to leave it alone.
Sometimes being brilliant looks very ordinary.
And sometimes it looks like folding the laundry properly while the future quietly gets on with the work.