Giving Everybody Claude Won't Make You Money | Lazy Leverage #122

Electrifying the factory didn't make anyone money. Owners pulled the steam engine out, dropped an electric motor in, and changed nothing else about how the floor was laid out. A Stanford economist wrote the paper on it in 1989, and Jon thinks it's the most useful thing you can read about AI right now.

In this one: why global talent made it to phase two while AI is still stuck at phase zero, what a leasing manager actually does with the two hours AI saves her, and the Fortune 500 that got quoted $80,000 for a single agent.

Chapters:00:00 - Intro01:29 - Welcome to Lazy Leverage02:05 - Electrifying the Factory Floor05:48 - Phase One: Global Talent as Lazy Replacement08:27 - Phase Two: Hiring What You Couldn't Afford13:17 - AI Is Doing the Same Thing Again15:24 - Phase Zero: Where AI Actually Is19:43 - Why Nobody Wants to Redesign the Factory24:51 - Fantasizing About an AI Native Property Manager28:34 - The Rolls-Royce Lesson on Domain Knowledge30:53 - It's 1998 and a Pullback Is Coming35:56 - The Fortune 500 That Got Quoted $80,00040:49 - Revenue Growing Agents, and Raising the Bar

References Mentioned in This Episode -

Papers:David, P. A. (1989). Computer and dynamo: The modern productivity paradox in a not-too-distant mirror. Center for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University.

Books:Taleb, N. N. (2012). Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder. Random House.Goldratt, E. M. (1984). The goal: A process of ongoing improvement. North River Press.

People & Frameworks Cited:Paul David, Stanford economist, on the productivity paradoxNassim Nicholas Taleb, and the Lindy effectEliyahu Goldratt, and Theory of ConstraintsDerek TurnerRolls-Royce, and the aftermarket service gap on its gas turbinesPets.comRL Property Management, Peter's company

Tools Mentioned in the Episode:Claude Code, Claude Cowork, ServiceTitan, AppFolio, LeadSimple, Airtable, DocuSign, Google Workspace, Notion, Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses

Related Reading:Jon's newsletter on this exact idea: https://lazyleverage.beehiiv.com/p/you-won-t-make-any-more-moneyThe 1989 paper: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/268373/

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