A few weeks ago, I delivered a technical document to our Product Manager. It wasn’t written for him, and he couldn’t quite follow it. Instead of scheduling time with me to walk through it, he posted it in our team channel and asked, “@Claude, explain this doc to me in a way that a product manager who isn’t technical could understand.” Claude read through the whole thing and explained it back to him point by point, in plain language. I followed along and could verify that everything it said was accurate. A few messages later, I watched the moment it clicked for him. No meeting. No me stepping in to translate. That’s new, and it’s a big part of why I think AI is becoming essential to how I’ve worked for most of my life.

I have been working remotely all of my adult life. Basically since 2001 working remotely has...