> However you will never get blinding insights, you will never get new ideas, and it will never be your friend I've been 100% in the "exciting tech being painf

> However you will never get blinding insights, you will never get new ideas, and it will never be your friend I've been 100% in the "exciting tech being painfully misrepresented" camp all along too, and I think more people are saying that as time passes, but I think you might surprised what little people need for insights, ideas, and friends. Rubber duck debugging, Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies, John Cage's I Ching use, journaling, etc already delivered a useful degree of those things with far less sophistication, and these generative tools really can take many of those to another level.