Never Enough
摘要
文章描述两则近期硅谷事例：一对夫妇年薪合计 55 万美元，仍因担心 Anthropic 人士抢先购房而焦虑，丈夫要求妻子承担几乎全部育儿责任以便自己日夜成为公司顶尖 AI 用户；另一位创始人录下每场首次约会后让 Claude 评估自己是否足够投入和共情。作者指出技术本应留出生活空间，却使越来越多人的生活围绕 AI 展开，人们因惧怕被取代而交出更多判断、注意力和时间，形成无终点竞赛，并提出或许落后并非最坏，或许需要知道何时停止的异类。
荐读理由
文中两个硅谷故事让你看到，人们因怕落后而把判断、家庭时间全交给AI，这能帮你重新评估自己在AI工程中的投入边界，避免生活被技术完全主导
原文
Never Enough
written on July 21, 2026
Two recent stories about Silicon Valley are hard to read without wondering if everyone involved has lost their mind. Once a place that celebrated “the crazy ones, the misfits and rebels who saw things differently,” it now seems to have found a new kind of crazy that isn’t born of rebellion but fear of falling behind. Everyone is chasing the person ahead of them, with little time to remember where they meant to go.
One story talks about a couple that earns a combined $550,000 a year and still feels behind because someone at Anthropic might buy the dream house first. The husband asked his wife to take over almost all parenting so he could spend days, nights and weekends becoming his company’s top user of AI. And she did.
The other story covers a founder who has Claude review her first dates and tell her whether she was engaging and empathetic enough, thanks to recording every single one of them. Two people meet and afterwards, rather than talk to the other person or trust her own judgment, one of them sits alone with a machine and asks how well she performed.
Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. People fear being replaced by machines and respond by giving those machines more of their judgment, attention and time. And for what? Every “saved” hour is returned to a race with no finish line.
If the valley shows us what it means to live in the future, perhaps falling behind is not the worst thing that could happen. Maybe we need the misfits who know when to stop. Who leave a conversation unrecorded. Who play with their children without agents running in the background. Who can admire another person’s success without feeling diminished by it. Who find peace not by getting ahead, but by no longer needing to.
The Great Buddha of Kamakura. (Wikimedia Commons.)
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