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I'm worried today's activity is a bit too long. We usually don't get started ...

April 21, 20267:03 AM8:15 AM(1h 12m)8 turns
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7:04 AM

I'm worried today's activity is a bit too long. We usually don't get started until 10 after and I want to wrap up by 20 after, so that's 70 minutes. Can we make some trims? I love the content, and I'd like to keep it all if possible.

Let me look at the meeting file directly to confirm the structure and check the facilitation notes.

Now I have enough to plan. Let me write the plan.

Now update the three share-out stages to 5m and tighten facilitation notes.

Now merge the Generate Questions + Question Review stages into one 5m stage.

Let me verify the type structure — question-board was originally at stage-level content, not inside a group.

Let me revert the merge — safer to keep 11 stages and trim individual times rather than introduce an unvalidated pattern (no existing meeting nests question-board inside a group).

Now trim the Final Share Out from 5m → 4m, and update the pacing table.

Now fix the pacing table to reflect the 11-stage structure.

Now let me verify the file is clean and typechecks.

Clean. Let me verify the final file reads correctly end-to-end.

Line 57 is stale — describes the merged version I reverted. Also noticed em dashes to clean up per the writing-style guidance.

Let me do a final read to confirm the full file is coherent.

Clean. Trim is done.

Summary of changes to content/spring2026/meetings/2026-04-21-future-of-ai.ts:

StageBeforeAfter
Round 1 Share Out10m5m
Round 2 Share Out10m5m
Round 3 Share Out10m5m
Generate Questions5m3m
Question Review5m3m
Final Share Out5m4m

Total: 90m → 70m. All content preserved: the three 10m discussion rounds, the 10m investigation, feedback, all markdown prompts and facilitation notes are untouched. I tightened the facilitation notes on each shortened stage with specific pacing guidance ("2 pairs at ~90s each" rather than "2-3 pairs"), and updated the pacing table + tips in facilitationOverview.

One tradeoff flag: 10m discussion + 5m share-out is tighter than the 10m+10m pattern we've validated. If share-outs routinely run long in practice, the cleanest fallback is to drop one share-out entirely rather than shrink further.

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7:15 AM

Should we drop the question generation step entirely? Would that save time? And just do four similar rounds, the final on AGI?

Yes — drops ~6m and gives a clean four-round symmetry: 4 × (10m discussion + 5m share) + 5m feedback = 65m, leaving a 5m buffer for the slow start. Tradeoff: you lose the one moment of student-directed inquiry. Rounds 1-3 are all instructor-framed provocations; the question-generation arc was where students chose what to ask. Making AGI a fourth parallel round means Geoff frames the AGI question instead of students arriving at it. Want me to restructure?

7:16 AM

Yeah, that's fine. This is OK.

Restructuring to four parallel rounds. Dropping Generate Questions + Question Review + the old Share Out, and reshaping the AGI stage into Round 4 (discussion + share-out) that mirrors R1-R3.

Now replace the old Generate Questions + Question Review + Investigate + Share Out stages with Round 4 discussion + Round 4 share-out.

Now update the Round 3 share-out bridge — it was setting up the question generation, now it needs to bridge to Round 4 (AGI).

Clean typecheck from apps/web. Let me also do a final read of the restructured stages to make sure the file is coherent.

Restructured to 4 parallel rounds. Final pacing: 65m (10+5) × 4 rounds + 5m feedback, leaving a 5m buffer.

Changes:

  • Dropped "Generate Questions" and "Question Review" stages
  • Reshaped "Investigate: The AGI Question" → Round 4: The AGI Question (10m discussion, same future-ai-discuss-2026-04-21 groupKey so students rotate to a new partner like R1-R3, removed the selected-question dependency, added a self-contained discussion prompt)
  • Reshaped the final Share Out → Round 4: Share Out (5m, serves as the synthesis + forward look to Thursday's Workshop)
  • Updated intro, logistics, pacing table, tips, and Round 3 share-out bridge to reflect the four-round structure

Typechecks clean.

Edit3Bash2Read1
7:24 AM

I wonder if another option isn't to role the AGI question into the human flourishing session. That would free up time today. I think that these are thought-provoking and 5m share outs are probably not realistic.

Let me find the human flourishing meeting to confirm it exists and makes sense as the new home for AGI.

Reverting to three rounds with full 10m+10m share-outs, moving AGI to the Apr 28 Human Flourishing meeting.

Now revert the three round share-outs from 5m → 10m and update the Round 3 share-out to serve as the meeting's wrap-up.

Now add a note in the planning doc so the AGI handoff to Apr 28 is visible.

Typechecks clean. Final structure:

#StageDurationCumulative
1Round 1: MoE discussion10m10m
2Round 1: Share Out10m20m
3Round 2: Local — discussion10m30m
4Round 2: Share Out10m40m
5Round 3: Specialist vs Generalist10m50m
6Round 3: Share Out (wrap-up)10m60m
7Feedback5m65m

65m with 5m buffer, restoring the validated 10m discussion + 10m share-out pattern throughout. Changes:

  • Dropped the AGI round entirely and moved it to the Apr 28 Human Flourishing discussion, where it lands naturally alongside the readings on AI and what makes us human
  • Round 3 share-out now doubles as the meeting's wrap-up: Geoff synthesizes the three directions (efficiency/access/focus), flags AGI coming next week, and does the Final Project Workshop forward look
  • Updated intro, facilitationOverview, pacing table, and tips to reflect three rounds instead of four
  • Added a note to planning/remaining-schedule.md flagging that the Apr 28 session needs to pick up the AGI/synthesis question
Bash6Edit6Grep2Read2
7:32 AM

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

Two files modified, both content-only, no debugging statements. The changes are tightly related (trim + planning note about where AGI moved), so one commit makes sense.

Committed as 39003bc. Working tree is clean.

Bash5
7:43 AM

I think that the meeting e2e tests need updating for today.

Now let me verify the test typechecks.

Let me check if the dev server is running so I can verify the test.

Bash3Grep2Read1Edit1
8:11 AM

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

One file modified, no debugging statements, diff matches the meeting trim from the previous commit.

Committed as 0e4162f. Working tree clean.

Bash4
8:15 AM

Your task

First, run git status, git diff, and git log --oneline -10 to understand the current state.

Then add and commit all modified files with a descriptive message. Break the changes into multiple commits if appropriate. If there are untracked files, ask if they should be added or added to the appropriate .gitignore file. The user may also want to take over at this point, so provide an abort option as well. Always check changes for unnecessary debugging statements or logging that might have been accidentally included. Prompt the user if you find any, and offer to remove each one by one. Do not use interactive git staging (git add -p) as it does not work.

Version bump across all 26 workspaces (2026.4.22 → 2026.4.23). Matches the existing "Bump version to X" commit pattern.

Committed as 66f4b22. Working tree clean. Branch is now 2 commits ahead of origin/main.

Bash4