AI and human skill
Practised abilities decaying because a machine now does them: writing, thinking, reading anything long.
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Paul Graham quoted
Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
Our readingMany things only worked because there is a limit to the rate at which humans can operate.
Their wordsThere were a lot of things that only worked because there's a limit to the rate at which humans can operate.
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Terence Tao quoted
Their wordsImproper usage of AI offloads thinking, understanding and learning, thus mortgaging future mathematical development.
↗A value-based approach to mathematicsterrytao.wordpress.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Guillermo Rauch quoted
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
Their wordsWe run a real risk that *reading* gets entirely discounted, because of the exhaustion of getting low-quality and unverified AI prose being thrown at you all the time.
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordsThe number of programmers worldwide who can beat a collaborating pair of frontier models rounds to zero.
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Razib Khan quoted
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics
Their wordsBoth view AI as a powerful tool for skilled thinkers but a potential source of intellectual passivity for others, raising the question of how people can preserve their agency and sense of purpose as AI becomes part of everyday intellectual work.
↗Jerry Z. Muller: academia today, intellectual history in the past and AI in the futurerazibkhan.com
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Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsIf you know anyone looking for a good and fairly AI-proof career, watchmaker (= watch repairer) seems a promising one. Every watchmaker seems to have more work than he can handle, mechanical watches are increasingly popular, and it will be a while before AI does this.
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Stefan Judis quoted
German web developer, writer and conference speaker
Their wordsHer main point is that the more we outsource to the machines, the less we'll be capable of doing in the future. It's sad but true.
↗Sally Hall on being proud of doing the work (#blogPost)stefanjudis.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast
Their wordsThe craft of writing code will disappear. Yes, there are still Italian shoe makers around. But look at your feet. The craft of building software will be more important than ever.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 2nd of 15 in this piece
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Their wordsThe terminal is dead. Most developer tooling will be washed away by tokens. Shells, text editors, CLI tools won’t be used by humans anymore. There’s no need to know command line flags and jq invocations anymore.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 6th of 15 in this piece
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Thorsten Ball quoted
Their wordsThere’s no proof that “good code” will matter in the future. The notion of “good code” itself is mostly based on the idea that it’s easy/cheap/efficient for humans to work with. But humans won’t modify the majority of code.
↗What I believe about the future of software developmentthorstenball.com 11th of 15 in this piece
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Ethan Mollick quoted
Professor at Wharton studying how people actually use AI
Their wordsYou are not trying to compete with AI in producing outputs, that is a losing game. Instead, you want to use your human advantages as basis of working with AI to do things that neither of you could do alone.
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Dave Rupert quoted
Front-end web developer at Paravel and co-host of the ShopTalk Show podcast
Their wordsBetting your career against the thing (it seems) all companies are hyper-scaling towards is a big bet. Either you're right and the world will always need people who know how software works, or you're wrong and you're left in the dust... or we're all steam rolled by the errant contraption.
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Venkatesh Rao quoted
Writer and consultant on technology
Their wordsOnce intelligence ceases to be scarce, its complements become more important.
↗The Accelerationist Case for Frontier Pacingcontraptions.venkateshrao.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
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Fatih Arslan quoted
Software engineer at PlanetScale and creator of the vim-go plugin
Their wordsAgents are so powerful that we should let them improve our skills and systems constantly.
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Derek Thompson quoted
Writer and podcaster; co-author of Abundance with Ezra…
Their wordsThe act of writing is an act of thinking, and to automate our paragraphs is to populate our screens with words without filling our minds with the ideas necessary to conceive of them.
↗We Can't Let AI Writing Take Over the Internetderekthompson.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Nick Maggiulli quoted
Writer of the personal-finance blog Of Dollars And Data…
Their wordsAI is incredible for certain kinds of tasks, but I still believe there is no substitute for thinking.
↗Which Graduate Degrees Are the Best Investment? (Why I Skipped My MBA)ofdollarsanddata.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Daniel W. Drezner quoted
Political scientist writing Drezner’s World on international relations
Their wordsWithout a well-developed set of critical thinking skills, AI outputs will yield variegated results at best
↗The Professor and the Plutocrat and AIdanieldrezner.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Matt Webb quoted
British designer and technologist
Their wordsSo learning doesn't stop just because I outsource a bunch of thinking to AI. It pushes me to learn more. I like that as an outcome.
↗Galactic Compass 2: now with new augmented reality modeinterconnected.org
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Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsThere may not be many people left in 10 years who can write, or want to read, things longer than a page or two. But there will be at least a few of us, and we'll be a powerful club.
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Addy Osmani quoted
Engineering leader and author who spent 14 years at Google
Their wordsthe first is cognitive debt. So the more that you use AI, it's it's sort of the erosion of your ability to have good memory and have good understanding of the problems that you're working on. And the natural follow-up to that is cognitive surrender, which is where you, you know, you blindly give in to whatever the AI says as your answer.
↗From Chrome DevTools to AI Engineering, with Addy Osmaniyoutube.com 10th of 22 in this recording
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Charity Majors quoted
Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb
Their wordsYou can use AI as a shortcut to help you not have to think too much. And you can use AI to help you think more deeply and more rigorously. And both of those use cases have their place. But when it comes to your core job function, we primarily want the second one, right?
↗Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majorsyoutube.com 15th of 26 in this recording
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Brad Feld quoted
Co-founder of Foundry Group and of Techstars
Our readingNew technologies raise the ceiling for skilled practitioners instead of diminishing them.
Their wordsWhat actually happened each time a new technology was introduced is that the ceiling went higher.
↗The Argument Against AI Writing Is At Least 2,400 Years Oldfeld.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Patrick Collison quoted
Co-founder and CEO of Stripe and co-founder of the Arc Institute
Their wordsThat's a hell of a lot slower than knowing it in cognitive L1 cache. And you can have way more round trips in your brain than you can, you know, muttering through, you know, super whisper or typing it out or whatever.
↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 1st of 20 in this recording
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Patrick Collison quoted
Their wordsthere still seems to be an enormous premium on cognitive ability. And so, I wouldn't I I I I think, um, renouncing that before there's evidence that we've saturated, uh, those benefits would be premature.
↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 2nd of 20 in this recording
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Venkatesh Rao quoted
Their wordsartificial minds are just as capable of participating in the patterns of collective attention that humans need to think at their best.
↗Cognitive Farmsteadingcontraptions.venkateshrao.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Scott H. Young quoted
Canadian writer on learning who taught himself MIT's…
Their wordsAsking an AI for help with the start of an essay, for instance, will invariably shape what direction you end up following, robbing you of the crucial experience of building your own judgement around a topic and selecting your own path to research and argue.
↗We Need Guidelines for Learning and AIscotthyoung.com 3rd of 4 in this piece
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Scott H. Young quoted
Their wordsAI has the potential to assist with both the first and last element of that loop. What it cannot replace is the middle step—doing the work for yourself.
↗We Need Guidelines for Learning and AIscotthyoung.com 4th of 4 in this piece
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Pablo Stanley quoted
Designer and builder on the creative team at Vercel
Their wordsI think that you want to be able to force yourself to not delegate all of your thinking to this tool and use this tool the right way is that we need to use it in a way that expands our ideas. It magnifies our curiosity.
↗Pablo Stanley - Protecting your creativity in an AI worldyoutube.com 16th of 16 in this recording
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Elizabeth Stone quoted
Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix
Their wordsI still see a craft excellence that's really important in the disciplines that I don't think is going away anytime soon. Even if there's fluidity or blurring of the work across the functional lines.
↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com 3rd of 20 in this recording
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Elizabeth Stone quoted
Their wordsI have a hard time picturing entertainment that doesn't have humans at the heart of it. So that that's humans in the creation of the storytelling, which I think is a scarce and valuable skill.
↗Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)youtube.com 20th of 20 in this recording