Reflections on a week of experimentation with Claude AI
Original Facebook Post: March 9, 2026 11:30 AM TL;DR Reflections on a week of experimentation with Claude AI. My conclusion to date: it’s a mirror, not a mind, and much more than an intern. If you have strong feelings, please share them respectfully. In December 2025, I retired because AI and globalization took my job. Our client is building what it intends to be the largest automation center outside the United States, and our data governance program moved to India where it is slated for AI automation. I didn’t want to go through that experience again, and I had a choice not to, so I retired. Like Virginia Woolf, I now have money and a room of my own to think and write. But im not writing fiction. As a data governance professional who teaches data ethics, I decided I wanted to practice a little experimental AI—know your enemy, if you will—because I am concerned that AI will take more jobs sooner in my friends’ careers than it took mine. And, I have to be honest, because I’ve alwa...
