AI took the friction out of my work. Then I found out the friction was holding up two things: my ideas and my brakes. Twenty-five years in a confession.
For a long time now the news and the roundups have all said the same thing. AI will take away the busywork. It will kill the friction. It will hand you wings, a cure-all for whatever ails you. I installed Claude Code, and the friction is gone. An idea now costs an evening to test, not a month. Then





