Drew Leder
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Drew Leder. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Drew Leder's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The first thing I lost track of was my hands.
Not metaphorically. Literally. I was deep in a build session with Claude, racing toward a deadline for Napster Station, and at some point my hands stopped being hands and became conduits — transparent pipelines between whatever was happening in my head and whatever was appearing on the screen. I did not feel the keyboard. I did not feel the tension creeping up my forearms. I did not feel anything below the neck for what turned out to be nearly five hours. When I finally stood up, my body arrived all at once — stiff neck, dry eyes, hollow stomach, a left shoulder that had apparently been screaming into a void. Every signal hit simultaneously, like a power grid
