On Computer Use

On Computer Use Over the past few months, I have minimized the time I spend inside a coding agent interface unless it is for very specific reasons. Instead, I have been talking to my chief-of-staff agent, "Jeff," to work. This ranges from requests related to $DAYJOB (working on projects, brainstorming ideas, running benchmarks) to benign requests while I am driving, like checking whether there are any spots available for a tour on recreation.gov, without even needing to take my eyes off the road. If one of the initial tenets was to stop looking at code, the next step in this process is to build systems for yourself that let you not look at computer screens unless you need help visualizing things (or it is faster for you to see and read something than to listen). Before we dig deeper into why I love it now and how it works, we need to define our terminology. What I am going to be calling computer use encompasses both browser use (by way of an extension that lets you interact with the…