> we’re lucky if a new AI tool stays relevant for 12 months! It’s incredibly disorienting when the “sharpen the axe” strategy that worked for thousands of years

> we’re lucky if a new AI tool stays relevant for 12 months! It’s incredibly disorienting when the “sharpen the axe” strategy that worked for thousands of years suddenly stops working. Its probably justified to suspect that this period is a temporary aberration, that the "thousands of years" strategy still does work in most places and will work in this field again soon. To stretch the metaphor: people cutting wood today are more effective for having learned more about their tools; be that chainsaws or feller buncher machines that needed hundreds of hours to learn to operate. The biggest, nastiest, most automated feller machine is likely to have an axe strapped to it somewhere when it out in the woods working, too.