Christina Maslach
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 Christina Maslach. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Christina Maslach's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
My wife noticed before I did.
Not the productivity. Everyone could see that — the prototypes materializing overnight, the features shipping in days instead of months, the twenty-fold multiplier I describe later in this book. What she noticed was subtler: I had stopped registering when I was tired. Not that I had stopped being tired. That the signal itself had gone dark.
I know the difference between a hard day and a broken pattern. I have built companies for three decades. I have pushed through exhaustion more times than I can count, and I have always been able to feel the moment when the exhilaration drains and the grinding takes over. That moment is your alarm. It is the thing that tells you to close the laptop, eat