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AI productivity versus progress on important goals

One user argues that AI leaves less time to think about goals, even as that thinking becomes more important than ever.

François CholletFC
Chamath PalihapitiyaCP
5 Sources, 19d ago, first seen 19d ago

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A user argues that AI makes it easier to get a lot of work done—but also to feel productive without advancing important goals. They say AI also leaves less time to think about those goals, which they consider more important than ever.

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Minh Nhat Nguyen 🦭@menhguinAI makes it easier to get a lot of work done, but it also makes it easier to feel like you got a lot of work done while not making any progress on important goals. It also leaves less time to think about goals, which is more important than ever!19d
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.” We are turning an entire generation of technical experts around the world into the equivalent of retirees pushing a button in front of casino slot machines. Essentially the brain rot of doom scrolling social media is coming for your development team… This will have lots of long run implications on companies. Most important of which, is that it will make existing moats even more brittle. The value of automated software is not making the software faster. It is understanding your intention and making the software BETTER. Better edge. Better design. Better alpha. But if you don’t slow down and map out your intention, you will just make your shitty code faster. We built 8090’s Software Factory to do this: when execution is a costless commodity, what really matters? Over time, companies will realize that it’s: 1. Intention 2. Governance 3. Verification 4. Evidence This is what will separate orgs consuming tokens and companies encoding their edge. This generally requires top down leadership from the CEO to the CFO/CIO. Bottoms up tool adoption only increases costs and accelerates slot machine behaviors. Good luck to all the players.19d
Mark Neumann@MarkNeumannnn@charles_irl Strong agree, reading this specific type of slop (ai comments and *particularly* PR overviews) has caused a strong, permanent decrease in the enjoyment of day to day technical engineering work/management. Annoyingly this is very much not universal (some people love it)!19d
François Chollet@fcholletDelegate coding. Never delegate understanding. If code was previously your source of truth for managing understanding, then you need a new source of truth artifact. If code-centric workflows were how you developed that understanding, then you need new workflows.18d
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    Minh Nhat Nguyen 🦭@menhguinAI makes it easier to get a lot of work done, but it also makes it easier to feel like you got a lot of work done while not making any progress on important goals. It also leaves less time to think about goals, which is more important than ever!19d
    Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.” We are turning an entire generation of technical experts around the world into the equivalent of retirees pushing a button in front of casino slot machines. Essentially the brain rot of doom scrolling social media is coming for your development team… This will have lots of long run implications on companies. Most important of which, is that it will make existing moats even more brittle. The value of automated software is not making the software faster. It is understanding your intention and making the software BETTER. Better edge. Better design. Better alpha. But if you don’t slow down and map out your intention, you will just make your shitty code faster. We built 8090’s Software Factory to do this: when execution is a costless commodity, what really matters? Over time, companies will realize that it’s: 1. Intention 2. Governance 3. Verification 4. Evidence This is what will separate orgs consuming tokens and companies encoding their edge. This generally requires top down leadership from the CEO to the CFO/CIO. Bottoms up tool adoption only increases costs and accelerates slot machine behaviors. Good luck to all the players.19d
    Mark Neumann@MarkNeumannnn@charles_irl Strong agree, reading this specific type of slop (ai comments and *particularly* PR overviews) has caused a strong, permanent decrease in the enjoyment of day to day technical engineering work/management. Annoyingly this is very much not universal (some people love it)!19d
    François Chollet@fcholletDelegate coding. Never delegate understanding. If code was previously your source of truth for managing understanding, then you need a new source of truth artifact. If code-centric workflows were how you developed that understanding, then you need new workflows.18d
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