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Travelling with AI

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This month, I took my first vacation in a while, and visited Japan for the first time. It was an amazing trip—I'm definitely going to be one of those annoying people who can't stop saying "Well, Japan does it this way, which is way better than how it's done here" about literally everything. I used to travel a lot (college debate), but since starting a company I've been a bit busy, and I haven't travelled internationally since November 2022, around when ChatGPT first launched. A lot has changed and improved about AI assistants in the interim, and I noticed the difference it made on this trip. In the future, this will all be normal and unremarkable, but it's interesting to be living through the change as it's happening. That's what this post is about. (I might blog about how great Japan is another time, but I feel like that's been covered pretty exhaustively by every tech bro who's visited Japan.) My last two international trips were to Australia and Korea. Australia happened before Chat

--> Travelling with AI Travelling with AI The future is now, old man. Posted Oct 25, 2025 by Benjamin Anderson This month, I took my first vacation in a while, and visited Japan for the first time. It was an amazing trip—I'm definitely going to be one of those annoying people who can't stop saying "Well, Japan does it this way, which is way better than how it's done here" about literally everything. I used to travel a lot (college debate), but since starting a company I've been a bit busy, and I haven't travelled internationally since November 2022, around when ChatGPT first launched. A lot ha

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