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AI has a vampiric effect on the people using it: it excites them into working past their own ragged edge.
Drawn from what Steve Yegge said
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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google
There's a vampiric effect happening with AI where it gets you excited and you work really really hard and you're capturing a ton of value. For me, I'm doing it all for myself and it's still kind of like pushing me to my ragged edge.
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