If nobody creates content any more because everyone just asks an AI, there is nothing left for AI to train on.

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  Coding is not just another application domain for AI; it is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive self-improvement loop.

  Levels says that if everyone stops creating and just asks a model, there is nothing left for models to train on. Chollet says coding is the meta-skill that lets AI generate its own training material and start the recursive loop. The second is the escape hatch from the first, and it only opens for the domains where the machine can check itself.

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• The current capabilities of existing AI models are barely being used and are often not even well understood. EMEthan Mollick18 Sept 2026
• People should use AI to scaffold their own learning and then flesh it out by building projects. FGFlora Guo25 Mar 2026
• We should want more tools and fewer operated machines; the real AI game changers will have little to do with plain content generation. AWAmelia Wattenbergerby 1 May 2023
• AI will replace designers, but not all of them. TCThiago Costa21 Feb 2025
• Social media has become dominated by low-value AI-generated content. ASAnthony Sculimbrene12 Aug 2026

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