Michael J Petrie

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Changes in the way we interact with computers

From at least eight hours a day at my computer to about one, with the rest done on my phone by voice.

It’s crazy how much this has changed for me. I’ve gone from sitting at my computer at least eight hours a day, programming, typing and doing some AI coding, to using it maybe one hour a day and doing the rest on my phone, with speech input and remote connections to Claude.

It’s insane just how much you can achieve on your phone. About the only thing you still can’t really do is detailed manual editing: of text, an image, 3D data or anything of that sort. That work is still very computer-centric, but to be honest, it just isn’t needed much these days. In an AI world where everything is prompted and speech-to-text is good, there’s mostly no reason to use a computer any more.

The other big thing I still use my computer for is building iOS apps, along with anything that has to be set up by hand and can’t be done from the phone.