I gave Claude access to my iMessages recently via Claude Code's new(ish) iMessage plugin. After about a day, I deleted the plugin. Want to know why? Read more here
In other news, if you need help coming up with a shortlist for where you should start experimenting with AI, do this thought experiment with me
What I'm reading
The slop factory needs line inspectors — The Leverage (Substack). Armstrong makes the case that design is the most vulnerable creative profession right now. Anthropic launching Claude Design this week kind of proves the point. If you're a designer reading this: you're about to have your software engineering moment with AI. I want to say just because you can design in natural language doesn't mean you should. But then I remember what happened to software engineering. So excuse me while I go test out Claude Design...
Claude gets remote control powers — Anthropic. Dispatch turns your phone into a remote control for Claude — send a task from wherever you are, come back to finished work on your desktop. If I had to choose between this and the iMessage plugin, I'd go dispatch. I honestly can't come up with a better summary than Anthropic's own: "Delegate to Claude, delight in the result."
When using AI leads to brain fry — HBR. BCG surveyed 1,488 workers and found 14% reporting mental fog, slower decisions, and increased errors. AI can produce work faster than we can review it — the bottleneck is our own capacity. It's an argument for being more deliberate about when you reach for it at all.
Slow note
I had a beautiful dream of dictating into my phone while joyfully making my morning coffee. Turns out it wasn't necessary. Sometimes it's fine to just make coffee.
Until next week,
Louise