I think this is always the mindset of people who are on the “correct” side of the previous technological regime.
Placing artificial constraints on output is always a mistake to me.
For example in music you used to have only a small amount of output because studio time was very expensive so you needed a record deal which only came about by an exec picking you. It meant there was some sort of quality bar on the radio, but it also stifled the creativity of everyone who couldn’t get into the studio.
Fast forward and the radio (or pick your curated channel) still exists but no one listens to it because there is an infinite amount of quality (and not quality! which is OK!) music that got created that fits the taste of the artist that was previously locked out.
More people are trying to be artists, but there are also more artists (music) than any time in history making a living.
Lack of scarcity is good. Universal opportunity means more completion, which makes it difficult, but artificially locking out all the people who who would love to compete is not the solution.
Maybe it’s not a good goal to get a billion people to like you or be on your platform, maybe just having a small handful is OK, and finding a small handful that value your work is now possible for a lot more people even if it makes it harder for a ton of people to value that same work.
Happy that this is being tried. I find it weird, sad, unfortunate, etc. that everyone in tech thinks about scientific discovery and drug discovery as AIs boon to society over education.
Every quality of life metric (life expectancy, income, etc) goes up with better education. I guess it’s because most people in tech grew up in neighborhoods with nice schools and went to college so they don’t think about it.
This would be amazing! Its such a pain having to set up two payment solutions as a merchant and as a buyer it would be great if I could use my paypal credit on whatever purchase I want. Consumers want paypal and merchant want stripe. I really want this to happen.
My take is that the take that vanilla js is better because developers love coding more than they love building the thing. See all the frameworks/packages built as an example.
This person re-invented form handlers, frameworks, ui helpers just to be able to do some basic things.
I think we agree that in terms of work, AI changes a lot, and that's a big deal and disrupting to a lot of people's livelihoods.
But when I am with friends, out for a mtn bike ride or playing golf, we are just hanging out like we did 20 years ago. I dont see any cars and I am sure there are tons of AI apps for both sports that would make me "better" but I really don't care. I don't do it for the outcome.
The bonding, happiness, sharing, laughing, are all there just like it always has been and always will be.
You can CHOOSE to let AI think for you or achieve for you, but you dont have to. You only HAVE to in a work context (for some people), which I admit sucks (or is great depending on who you are).
I'm confused. It feels like you are saying you did those things as a means to an end.
Like saying I no longer walk because I can drive. I no longer cook because Doordash exists. I no longer play piano because midi exists.
I mean i guess, but it seems like you didn't LIKE crafting the text or coding from scratch, you just wanted the outcome. If we are talking purely about work, I understand that its about being productive and it sucks to have a job shift to something you enjoy less.
But for daily life? I dont see how it changes, maybe its a tech thing where people think about making their daily lives more productive, but most people dont.
Have you never gone to a bookstore in real life and just browsed? Not everything has to come from recommendation or reviews or research. It can just be pure exploration.
Its the same process online and offline: See an interesting cover/title, read the dust cover, skim a page to get the writing style, buy or dont buy.
Sure, you will get "more bad than good" but not everything needs to be efficient, and in the old days, the bookstore played the role of curator so you could have a great experience spending a few hours in the store. You would come away having discovered a book that isnt the hotest thing on some review site or message board. That's probably the experience she has been replicating, but now the overall quality has gone down.
Claude would RUN for longer than 30 mins building something like this.
its 29 a year. At an hourly wage of $40 an hour. You would have to spend less than 45 minutes thinking about this and then NEVER touch it again for a year. No security updates, no improvements, no errors that you might have to fix, no handling bots or abuse.
You would only do that if your hobby is building random things. Not if you are a local teacher or coach.
Interesting that humans can't be trained to improve ("be less biased") but AI can. I would say this is a much more damning conclusion for the AI replacing ICs than managers.
Whats easier, training AI to make good bets (what does that mean in business? Make the most money? Worker quality of life? World a better place?) or training it to get code to compile?
Management advocates for AI because see ICs as commodities that just need to be coordinated to "do the thing." In this situation, remove the mid-managers, replace the ICs with AI, and use AI to enable them to coordinate the "workers." They forget that organizations exist to organize human output, which requires nuance, empathy, and communication.
ICs advocate for AI because they believe they are "doing the most valuable work." A rational AI would see that and let them do it. In this situation, remove the mid management, replace HR/marketing/sales/etc with AI and use AI to enable them to figure out what to build and they build twice as fast. They forget that the "rational" choice might not be what is best for them, their project, or their career.
Each one rebuts this with the way the system has failed them (managers feel that workers do everything BUT the work that moves the company forward, ICs feel like they can do everything BUT the work that moves the company forward)
Placing artificial constraints on output is always a mistake to me.
For example in music you used to have only a small amount of output because studio time was very expensive so you needed a record deal which only came about by an exec picking you. It meant there was some sort of quality bar on the radio, but it also stifled the creativity of everyone who couldn’t get into the studio.
Fast forward and the radio (or pick your curated channel) still exists but no one listens to it because there is an infinite amount of quality (and not quality! which is OK!) music that got created that fits the taste of the artist that was previously locked out.
More people are trying to be artists, but there are also more artists (music) than any time in history making a living.
Lack of scarcity is good. Universal opportunity means more completion, which makes it difficult, but artificially locking out all the people who who would love to compete is not the solution.
Maybe it’s not a good goal to get a billion people to like you or be on your platform, maybe just having a small handful is OK, and finding a small handful that value your work is now possible for a lot more people even if it makes it harder for a ton of people to value that same work.