Anthropic offering Fable for a limited time is totally hooking you up to the drug. I upgraded to Max because of it, with zero regrets. I remember the brief window of time Fable was available before the US government shutdown I was on vacations and missed it. When I came back my co-worker said: “as a designer, once you try Fable you can’t go back” and now I know what he meant, they gave it a browser and eyes so now it’s much better at design and front-end tasks.

In the past, the last thing I wanted to do after a long day of work was to sit down on the computer at home. Nowadays I find myself so busy building that I have little time for actually using what I build. I’m spending more time in the bike shed than actually riding the bike. I also see a lot of new stuff being released by vibecoders, so much it’s no longer possible to keep up with all the new and shiny stuff and this has deflated the value of products.

Yesterday I was thinking: I’m sure, long before the AI era, someone has dreamed that they gave instructions to a computer and it built whatever you wanted (perhaps even physical stuff). Those people are going to claim to have foreseen AI in their dreams, but what is it exactly? Are LLMs an invention or a discovery? Would an alien civilization have a similar discovery?

I remember when I started my career in the early 2000s, Richard Saul Wurman (the creator of the TED conferences) used to champion Information Architecture. His argument was that humanity was creating information at an unprecedented pace, and all this information needs to be processed into knowledge and ultimately wisdom. His answer for this was a specially trained information professional who could make sense of data and present it in a clear and compelling way. Indeed he foresaw the problem, but his solution was misguided (or perhaps not, because AI is ultimately trained on visualization and comprehension methods developed by information architects).

Most of the personal time I’ve spend on AI has been migrating my blog platform into something agentic capable, and I’m very satisfied with the functionality (the design not so much, and I don’t dare to look much under the hood). But I ought to move my usage elsewhere. I’ve been thinking about updating my games with all the ideas and bug fixes I wanted to do. The other day at work a sales guy asked “do you think AI will take away all our jobs?” and I said “we have thousands of ingenious time saving devices: the washing machine, the car, the dishwasher, and so on. Where has all our free time gone? We just work more. Work never ends”. This is not a nuanced point of view, of course some of us will suffer in a larger scale than what happened at the time of the industrial revolution.

My main worry is that it helps us do more of what we are already doing and if we keep on doing that, it will simply accelerate the effects of what we are doing which, judging by the floods that have happened in my home in Mexico and the heat in my home in Madrid, is not a good thing for the Earth.