The Aftermath

What AI means for how we live and work.

When your AI assistant knows more about you than your manager does

2026-06-22

Six months into using an AI assistant for daily work, I noticed something unsettling: it had modeled my writing patterns, my priorities, and my blind spots more accurately than any performance review ever had. What does it mean to be known by a machine — and what happens to that knowledge when you change jobs? (sample body for build/test)