My tennis buddy has an AI agent. It's changing his life.

My Thursday evening tennis association started again recently, and item different happened.

The emails organizing our weekly games began arriving alongside a new sign-off.

"See you on the court! Nathan's agent."

My tennis buddy Nathan Czubaj has organized this association for years. It's a lot of activity involving spreadsheets, scheduling, endless reminders, and chasing players who ignore to verify whether they're coming.

Now he's outsourced much of that activity to an AI agent.

Naturally, whenever we gathered on court, everyone wanted to cognize what Nathan was using. This is Silicon Valley, following all. We can't equal perform tennis without talking concerning AI.

Nathan explained that he'd started using OpenAI's Dots, a individual AI aide that can grip tasks complete period and activity alongside another apps.

Every Monday, Dot checks a spreadsheet containing our preparedness and emails players who power be capable to perform that Thursday. It asks us to confirm. On Thursday morning, another email reminds the confirmed players to display up at 7 pm.

It's been operating remarkably fine for multiple weeks, preservation Nathan significant time.

But here's what makes his cognition particularly interesting: Nathan isn't a innovation expert.

"I'm among the smallest specialized group I know," he told me.

Nathan runs Mindset Unlimited, a endeavor that helps professionals rotate into improved communicators and leaders through coaching and training.

From Claude Code to Dots

He's enthusiastic concerning AI, but his journey hasn't been entirely smooth.

A few months ago, he experimented alongside Anthropic's Claude Code, a tool that can compose application and transport out complex device tasks.

He established it frustrating and stopped using it.

"It was not uncomplicated to oversee and it took much longer than it would obtain to do it yourself," he said.

Dots has been different. Nathan can depict what he wants in average language, and his Dot can activity alongside services he already uses.

He started alongside tennis scheduling. Now he's handing his Dot tasks throughout his individual and expert life.

On one latest day, he asked it to assistance alongside guitar practice, a exercise routine, buying lists, marketing things on eBay, finding a anniversary present, and creating a family publish of memories.

He additionally uses it to recall to call friends, propose books, discover workshops, and create longer-term goals.

And that's before the 10 to 15 another questions he asks AI all day.

"I try to obtain everything on my to-do catalog and put it into Dots," he explained. "That way AI can be looking for solutions during I'm operating on another things."

"It's totally changed everything concerning the way I think and concerning the way I work," he added.

His enthusiasm is infectious. On the court, Nathan admitted that sometimes he spends additional period directing Dot than he'd like. Still, his cognition offers a glance of anywhere AI power be heading.

For years, we've heard concerning AI transforming the office through advanced application and specialized breakthroughs. Nathan's narrative suggests the bigger chance power be much additional ordinary: assisting group oversee the dozens of small chores that consume their days.

Nathan imagines a forthcoming anywhere everyone's AI delegate communicates alongside everyone else's, automatically handling regular tasks.

That forthcoming isn't current yet. But all Thursday, whenever Nathan's delegate reminds me to perform tennis, I get a glance of it.

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