Slow & Steady In A Relationship With AI And It’s Complicated
Feb 19, 2026
They wrestle with AI-driven distractions and the struggle to finish new projects. They talk using AI as a conversational thinking partner and tools for mining past transcripts. They describe building personal voice skills and giving bots a persona. They debate moving apps off Heroku and practical migration strategies with AI help.
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AI Multiplies Project Starts
- AI makes starting projects extremely easy, which increases idea throughput but also causes many half-finished efforts.
- Benedicte realizes she must limit active projects and relearn finishing discipline to avoid constant context switching.
Use A Freezer For New Ideas
- Create an effort status system (active, simmering, sleeping, freezer) to limit concurrent work.
- Use time locks so you cannot revisit frozen ideas until a set date to prevent distraction.
Transcripts Spark Reminders To Ship
- Benedikt fed 22 episode transcripts into Claude to surface patterns and reminders about shipping.
- The tool now prompts him at daybreak to wrap things up after four weeks of frenzy to counter predictable crashes.