Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Key takeaways
- There are two babies in this household now: the small human one and the large language model.
- Is this a Sophie’s choice kind of situation?
- There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom: what it’s doing to family dynamics.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
ILLUSTRATIONS: CAT SIMSComment Loader Save Story Save this story Comment Loader Save Story Save this story If i had to listen to another minute of my husband talking about Claude Code, I might have actually died. It was 11 pm in Berkeley, California, where I was home alone with our 10-month-old daughter, and 2 am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was visiting for his newish job in AI. “JUST LOOK AT THIS!” he shouted. The Face Time camera zoomed toward a laptop sitting on a hotel bed. “SEE?!”
See what, I thought. I wanted to shower. I still had to take the dog out.
“ARE YOU LOOKING?” he shouted again. I wasn’t. I was looking at our real baby. But that’s the thing. There are two babies in this household now: the small human one and the large language model. Both demand constant attention. Both keep us up at 2 am.