Easy 10% Performance boost

If you're looking for an easy 10% performance boost, minimize the friction of getting your thoughts to an LLM. Install the desktop app, learn the shortcut, or keep the tab open - whatever gets you feedback faster.

Success often comes down to breaking problems into parts and trying things until something works. When I fail, it’s usually because I lacked energy, interest, or skill. But if I could get help at the exact moment I got stuck, I wouldn't need as much of any of those to keep going.

Maybe I'd have discovered totally new passions if I pushed through one more obstacle. Now, AI removes so much of that friction. It's helped me make new conceptual connections with no mental drag. It's like riding an e-bike: once you've experienced that, going back to a regular bike feels brutal.

Reducing that friction preserves momentum. And momentum is everything when you’re learning. With AI deeply integrated, what used to take days (and a lot of grit), now takes minutes (and idle curiosity).

And even with such a powerful thought partner one tab away, sometimes I'm too lazy to type. If only there were a streaming brain chip... Until then, the next best thing is a word dump (my promtps loiteraly lok liet hsi) into the ChatGPT quick launcher.

That said, I've wasted time coaxing better answers out of an LLM when it would've been faster to just think. But overall, my output's better. As long as I'm steering and AI is refining, the end result is better than what I’d produce on my own.