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In my experience, usually the problem with a non-technical person isn't that they can't implement their ideas. It's that even if they could, their ideas are unw

In my experience, usually the problem with a non-technical person isn't that they can't implement their ideas. It's that even if they could, their ideas are unworkable for a hundred reasons that they can't begin to understand. So why would the outcome be any different with AI? Even if the AI is a super-intelligent system designer and tells them all the flaws with their thinking, they'll tell the AI to shut up and get to work just as they'd do with a software engineer. I actually think that for the foreseeable future, the opposite is more likely. A technical person will be required to get good technical results out of AI, whereas a lot of the key growth-related grunt-work that a good non-technical founder takes on will become easier and easier for a skilled engineer to automate.

syrusakbary 3y ago
Interesting. If I put it in other words, the argumentation is that AI will just propel the already existing qualities of the people. And because people are different (and the distribution of intellectual qualities remains constant as we grow), the AI will not make any difference on that point. I'd agree on that. However, let's imagine the scenario of two people have the similar qualities, with one main difference between them: one have worked longer on those than the other (but their "base" is the same). Do you think AI will propel them at the same speed? (or said in other way: where will be the biggest delta on speed between their pre-AI and post-AI versions?)
- danenania 3y ago
  I think the key factor is how difficult it is to specify what you want in detail, since this is still going to be necessary with AI. If you can't clearly express what the AI should do, you won't get good results. I'd say it would be much easier for a technical founder to write a detailed spec for the work that a typical non-technical founder does than the reverse.

syrusakbary 3y ago

Interesting. If I put it in other words, the argumentation is that AI will just propel the already existing qualities of the people. And because people are different (and the distribution of intellectual qualities remains constant as we grow), the AI will not make any difference on that point. I'd agree on that. However, let's imagine the scenario of two people have the similar qualities, with one main difference between them: one have worked longer on those than the other (but their "base" is the same). Do you think AI will propel them at the same speed? (or said in other way: where will be the biggest delta on speed between their pre-AI and post-AI versions?)

danenania 3y ago
I think the key factor is how difficult it is to specify what you want in detail, since this is still going to be necessary with AI. If you can't clearly express what the AI should do, you won't get good results. I'd say it would be much easier for a technical founder to write a detailed spec for the work that a typical non-technical founder does than the reverse.