#252 I Just Replaced Part of My Team With AI

I think I took a break in the last episode not talking about Claude and AI, but unfortunately, I'm going to have to talk to you about it again because it's literally front of mind for me.

I'm immersed in it.

I'm actually doing work through it.

So it's not a case of, okay, this is a great AI tool that you can ask questions to and it gives you answers or you can do a bit of research or have you craft better emails.

Literally work happens through Claude in terms of strategy, thinking, planning, coding, designing, copywriting.

utilizing your browser to do direct outreach like this is insane now it's getting to the point now where it is actually becoming superhuman well more human and uh i'm realizing that actually roles can be replaced already i have unfortunately let down my let go of my designer who i've had for the last few years on a retainer engagement to do all my design stuff And I found that I haven't really used him for the last six months at all on design work because I'm doing it all in Claude.

Like Claude is much better at design now than a designer is.

And well, I wouldn't say much better.

I'd say my designer was very good, by the way.

And if you do need design work and you want a humor to do it, then go and check out Noir Design.

Stephen Baldwin, he's fantastic.

He's used to do all my work, but in the last four months I haven't used him.

because Claude has been doing it.

And, you know, it does it as, you know, 90% as well as he would do it, but in a fraction of the time.

So for me, speed is key.

Like for me, I move fast.

I like things to run quickly.

I don't want to wait around.

Yeah, Stephen's fantastic.

But it takes him, you know, a week, two weeks, three weeks to turn things around because clearly he's a human and it takes time to do good design and he has other clients and I want things now, now, now and yesterday.

So for me, working with Claude is fantastic because I can get stuff done there and then.

And I guess that's why it's so addictive because you're literally building stuff in real time.

You're getting feedback fast.

You can iterate fast.

You can put changes through and yeah, it's just phenomenal.