Cognitive Decline or Sanity Incline?

I have a business. Sometimes I buy things on Amazon. At tax time, I search for the big business items and categorize them in QuickBooks until I give up.

You know who doesn't give up? Claude, who doesn't seem to realize how shitty and slow QuickBooks Online is. It's even happy to click 19 times to do a split because I dared to add a router and shampoo to the same Amazon cart in a weak moment of convenience one night back in February 2025.

Some so-called skills are worth letting atrophy. Whatever I used to do with a janky browser plugin and two monitors full of Excel windows at tax time is one of them.

What I think this was intended to say was that a lot of nonsense work can be done by AI, so let’s eliminate the nonsense work. Valid, but consider that you may be protected too by the amount of paperwork it takes to hurt someone.

    instead of me using my brain to figure out the web of emails and contacts for an integration project, I can connect [AI] to my email inbox and say "who the fuck do I need to talk to to get an answer for where this project is”

Huh? What kind of project are you working on where you don’t even know who you’re working with?

> I look at Apple crushing decade old bugs and technical debt

Specifics on this? There is zero evidence of this.