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Token Anxiety

Nikunj Kothari berichtet Szenen aus San Francisco von Februar 20261:

A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents.

Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party.

Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight.

I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I’m unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful.

Oh Mann. Ich müsste allerdings lügen, wenn ich sagen würde, dass mir diese Gedanken gänzlich fremd sind. Ich habe auch schon überlegt, was „die KI“ denn machen könnte, während ich zu Mittag esse, einen Call habe oder das Kind ins Bett bringe.

Ich glaube, man sollte nicht zu sehr auf AI-CEOs hören, die natürlich gänzlich ohne Eigeninteresse monumentale Veränderungen proklamieren, aber dass sich in unserem Denken und Arbeiten etwas verändern wird und zum Teil schon hat, steht außer Frage.

Leider auf Substack. [↩]

Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026

A unified theory of fucks

The theory goes like so: you are born with so many fucks to give. However many you’ve got is all there is; they are like eggs, that way. Some of us are born with quite a lot, some with less, but none of us knows how many we have. When we’re young, we go around giving a fuck about all kinds of things, blissfully unaware of our ever-dwindling supply. Until one day, we give the last fuck we’ve got, and we notice that the invisible bag of fucks we’ve been carrying around all these years is finally, irredeemably, empty. We have no more fucks left to give.

Eine, nun ja, poetische Sicht auf die Welt von Mandy Brown und eine schöne Empfehlung, die sie daraus ableitet: „Good work is the art of giving a fuck about the living.“ (via Kottke)