Arlie Russell Hochschild
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
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Foreword
By Edo Segal
The feeling I couldn't account for had nothing to do with code.
It showed up at the end of a fourteen-hour build session with Claude. Everything worked. The product was ahead of schedule. The output was extraordinary by any measure I knew how to apply. And when I finally closed the laptop and walked into the kitchen where my wife was cleaning up after a dinner I had missed, something landed in my chest that no productivity metric could explain.
Guilt, sure. But not just guilt. Something structural. The sense that the very architecture of my most productive days was borrowing against an account I wasn't the one replenishing.
I had built You On AI around frameworks for understanding intelligence, capability, friction, flow
