How often do you use AI? I tracked my Sunday workday to find out. Between 4:30-9:00 PM (with a dinner break), I monitored every AI interaction while handling emails, analyzing data, & writing.
If the average American picks up their mobile phone 144 times per day & we call that addiction, I am using AI about a hundred times per hour. Is AI ten times more valuable than a phone?
Speech

Dictation activity is bursty with breaks for dinner. But looking at 7pm & later, I’m hitting the speech API at least once every 2 minutes but closer to every 90 seconds on average. Around 8:00 PM is when I started to email – massive activity spike.

Field
Value

Timestamps
110

Total Word count
1998

Average Words per Call
18

Calls per Hour
51

On average, the typical transcription contains about 18 words, but more than a quarter of them contain more than 50 words. Those longer tracts are typically entire email responses dictated in one shot.
Dictation is 3 times faster than typing, so it saves me an enormous amount of time.

Two AIs process my voice : initially a dictation AI and a language AI that edits for brevity & clarity (both of these run on my laptop).
Coding

Field
Value

Venture Industry Analysis, lines of code
267

Speech analysis, lines of code
121

AI Chats
12

Estimated AI Calls per Hour
32

Publishing data-driven blog post analysis is a key part from formatting the data to analyzing it using R and then publishing charts. All of this is now predominantly handled with prompts to an AI.
I can generate several hundred lines of code in 5-10 minutes. With the newer models, I expect this to collapse to 1-2 minutes.
In fact, I find myself growing reliant on the AI to the extent that I no longer remember some of the R syntax, A sign of working at a higher level of abstraction : one of the promises of AI.
Fully focused on work, I’m employing AI roughly 50-100 times per hour.
Within the last 24 months it’s clear that AI has become an essential coworker, perhaps at least as important as a mobile phone, but very likely more critical.
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