It was around this time that I realized an AI employee who works for you 24/7 isn’t much use if they have no idea what they are, or what they can do, or what you are talking about. The daily briefing of my dreams had come to feel like an albatross. Asking it to do anything more complicated felt, at least in this moment, like a waste of time and tokens. I had become the character I described here earlier this month: the manager who believed he was using AI to make himself more productive, while in reality I was only creating problems for my future self to solve.