Instant-kill AI, gloomy shopping, healing that never comes, and an intrusive wife (2025.07.03)

Between work tasks, I the note article I wrote the day before yesterday and play around by feeding it into ChatGPT to have it rewritten in the style of my favorite novelist. It instantly becomes exactly that, and with brilliant expressions scattered throughout, I think, 'There's no beating this.' No matter how much I write every day, in front of an AI that feels like the condensed and exploded wisdom of humanity, I'm nothing more than a water flea. It's an instant kill.

That said, I don't feel desperate; rather, I become suddenly interested in the idea that I might be able to use this to do something interesting.

In the evening, shopping is as gloomy as ever. The volume is about twice as much as usual. I proceed with the shopping while listening to a playlist I made a long time ago through earphones that block out the world. The songs I was listening to at the time are as follows.

I get home, and nothing is tidied up. There are children running around the hallway, stomping their feet, obsessed with something instead of taking a bath. My wife is shaking her body, which has lost its vitality like a withered tree, as she somehow manages to make dinner.

Sachiko (the dog) was out of her cage, so I thought I would seek some healing and play with her for a moment, but Sachiko wants the cabbage my wife is chopping, so she won't leave that spot and doesn't respond to my calls of 'Sachi! Sachi!' Healing does not come.

Everything is done, and it's night. My precious, precious time all to myself while my wife is in the bath. I read a book for just about 15 minutes. A book that Leon Saruogi recommended before.

I'm finally about to finish reading this. It's an explanatory book about philosophers, but it's very easy to understand and, what's more, it's written in a Baki-style, which is fun. I look forward to that time every day when I read a little bit.

But when I'm reading, my wife unexpectedly gets out of the bath early, comes into my room saying things like 'Ah, it's cool!', and tries to stay there, which irritates me. I wish she wouldn't disturb my precious, precious time.

That's how the day went.