You've heard ChatGPT is magic. It's not. It's a kitchen apprentice named Ming, a wall of 4,192 judgment dials, and one loop — repeated a thousand times. No formulas, no code. Just a kitchen.
Anthropic released financial-services-plugins this week — five Claude plugins wired to 11 institutional data sources. I'm a Head of Technology Products at a financial firm. I ran it on a real DCF and client report. Here's what I actually found.
Chamath Palihapitiya's 6 rules aren't independent tips — they form one operating system that protects continuous learning. I map each rule against my 15-year career and current AI transition to show why process-orientation matters more than ever.
AI doesn't just change what we can do — it changes how we should think about work itself. A framework for knowing when to scatter (parallel, exploratory, AI-amplified) and when to laser (deep, focused, human-led).
