Your AI twiddles its thumbs 77% of the year.

You read about 4 words a second. I timed four popular AI models, and the slowest writes 60.

An hour: you read 48 pages. It writes 720.
A workday: you read one novel. It writes all seven Harry Potter books.
A work year: 95,000 pages vs 1.4 million.

Bar chart of pages: you read 48 an hour against your AI's 720, then 380 vs 5,760 in a workday, 1,900 vs 28,800 in a week, and 95,000 vs 1,440,000 in a year. — Same 15x every time. The gap is what grows.

(Writing isn't working, of course. Plenty of those pages would be junk. But we both know who the slow poke is.)

A year has 8,760 hours. A full-time job is about 2,000. Most people only use AI while they're sitting in front of it, so for the other 6,760 it just... waits.

That's 77% of the year. Nights, weekends, the commute, the dentist.

A year drawn as 8,760 squares, one per hour. The 2,000 work hours are gold; the other 6,760 are blue. — Each row is a week, each square an hour. Gold is you at your desk.

And the 23% when you are there? You're STILL the bottleneck.

So, sure, treat yourself to the smarter model. Just know you're missing the far bigger opportunity: running it 24/7. That's all a "software factory" is.

The simplest version:

Before you leave, give it a full day's job (say, rank the last 200 support emails).
Have it draft replies. Nothing gets sent, bought or deleted overnight.
Have it check its own work and put 3 sentences on top.
In the morning, read the 3 sentences.

Pro move: let it pitch you what it thinks is useful next.

Pro pro move: swipe left and right on its pitches so it learns to pitch you even better.

Do that every weeknight and the 77% starts working for you.

Showing how to build these, step by step, is most of what we write about at @theunbiasedco. We do a lot more, but we'll save that for another time.

I co-founded @theunbiasedco, which builds all sorts of stuff with (and for) AI agents.