Can we have the day off?<br>May '26<br>Can we have the day off?<br>So, apparently we are at the cusp of the entire world&rsquo;s white collar workforce<br>(and, by extension, much of the US workforce) undergoing a revolution in<br>productivity. AI is the technology that is going to revolutionize the way we<br>work, the way we interact with the world, the way we learn, the way we<br>socialize, and all of this. This sounds great. Really, it does. Everything<br>getting faster and easier would be an extraordinary boon to all of our lives.<br>Can we have a day off then?<br>If AI is going to 10x our productivity across the board, that means that I<br>should be able to produce the same amount of output by midday on Monday that, in<br>the before times, would have taken all week.<br>So can I just take Friday off? From here on out, I&rsquo;ll work Monday, Tuesday,<br>Wednesday, Thursday, and then take Friday off. We can even declare Friday to be<br>something like an &ldquo;AI workers&rsquo; day;&rdquo; on Thursday I promise I&rsquo;ll work my ass off<br>writing great prompts and then the agents can churn on them all day on Friday.<br>In that case, you&rsquo;d hardly even lose Friday, right?<br>And like, this would apply across the board, of course. So you, the board of<br>directors, and the C-suite, you guys could take Friday off to go to play an<br>entire 18 holes at the golf course. It&rsquo;ll be beautiful, can you imagine? You<br>don&rsquo;t have to be in the office, because I&rsquo;m not going to be in the office. You<br>don&rsquo;t have to be at the office, because the AI agents are there. And neither do<br>I!<br>Just one extra day. Seems reasonable and quite a small change really, in light<br>of the total world revolution across every swathe of human productivity.<br>(Yo, Elon: I&rsquo;m trying to increase the fertility rate. Childcare for 3 small children is six thousand dollars a month here in California. Do I have to go into the office all five days this week? Why not four?)