Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry. ILLUSTRATIONS: CAT SIMS If i had to listen to another minute of my husband talking about Claude Code, I might have actually died. It was 11 pm in Berkeley, California, where I was home alone with our 10-month-old daughter, and 2 am in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was visiting for his newish job in AI. “JUST LOOK AT THIS!” he shouted. The FaceTime camera zoomed toward a laptop sitting on a hotel bed. “SEE?!” See what , I thought. I wanted to shower. I still had to take the dog out. “ARE YOU LOOKING?” he shouted again. I wasn’t. I was looking at our real baby. But that’s the thing. There are two babies in this household now: the small human one and the large language model. Both demand constant attention. Both keep us up at 2 am. Is this a Sophie’s choice kind of situation? Please. I’d kill the AI baby in an instant. There’s a strange and under-discussed side effect of the AI boom : what it’s doing to family dynamics.…