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I think this is the wrong mental model. The correct one is: 'AI makes everything easier, but it's a skill in itself, and learning that skill is just as hard as
by tern 8mo ago
I think this is the wrong mental model. The correct one is:
'AI makes everything easier, but it's a skill in itself, and learning that skill is just as hard as learning any other skill.'
For a more complete understand, you also have to add: 'we're in the ENIAC era of AI. The equivalents of high-level languages and operating systems haven't yet been invented.'
I have no doubt the next few years will birth a "context engineering" academic field, and everything we're doing currently will seem hopelessly primitive.
My mind changed on this after attempting complex projects—with the right structure, the capabilities appear unbounded in practice.
But, of course, there is baked-in mean reversion. Doing the most popular and uncomplicated things is obviously easier. That's just the nature of these models.
- xeyownt 8mo agoFunny how people only looks at the easy part, but not the cost part. "I did it with AI" = "I did it with an army of CPU burning considerable resources and owned by a foreign company." Give me an AI agent that I own and operate 100%, and the comparison will be fair. Otherwise it's not progress, but rather a theft at planetary scale.
- tern 8mo agoIf you want to play that game, you need to offer a fair comparison against the cost of "operating" the equivalent human being(s), measured in caloric input, waste output, etc.
- strogonoff 8mo agoMinimising the cost of “operating” humans means getting rid of humans. When human beings are not slaves and operate in a fair system, humans doing things is part humans living. Believe it or not, they may actually enjoy doing things; taking away the ability to do things we enjoy, and especially for compensation, is in fact harmful.
- tern 8mo agoHistorically, it leads to more humans—not fewer—and they get to do something else. Whether the new things they get to do are better is a matter of some debate.
- strogonoff 8mo agoHistorically, it never happened that “get to do something else” would mean “get to do something no one needs and therefore no one will pay you for”. It would be harmful not only for humans flourishing but also for their basic survival.