Becoming unLLMable

Expectation:

AI will reduce our workload, giving us more leisure time.

Reality:

AI expands what's possible —raising expectations, and creating more work

Because if you strip LLMs to their essence, they are just a much better way of using statistics to aggregate human intelligence and connect everything we’ve all done together to get more use out of it.

Not for making something fast but for making something wonderful. Not to automate your words but to alchemize your mind. And I've seen how these shifts in frame create ripple effects across every decision we make.

This isn’t just philosophical woo woo stuff—it’s practical. Because products are not neutral. They are opinions embedded in pixels – ever... See more

what do you believe will lead to human flourishing?

You know, so many of us in tech, we tend to see the world through the lens of technological determinism, where we believe the course of history will play out according to what is technologically possible.

But the most exciting breakthroughs won’t come from technology. They’ll come from how these new tools reshape our understanding of ourselves and o... See more

Said differently, we try to measure what we value.

But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.

And what can be measured tends to be...the mechanical stuff.

Not only do numbers not capture what matters, they are also extremely open to manipulation.

And I think more and more, this dynamic is going to show up outside of art.

Things will appear simple or easily replicable on the surface.

You’ll hear people say:

“Anyone could’ve made that with ChatGPT.”

But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information.... See more

The key thing to take away from this is that the real expertise here isn’t doing the work. It’s knowing how to guide the work. How to evaluate the work. It’s knowing what is worth prompting — which is really just another way of saying: knowing what’s worth doing.

I saw someone define modern art as:

Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you didn’... See more

LLMs may soon do many things we once thought only humans could.

But we’ll keep moving up the stack.

We’ll take those outputs as inputs—and dream bigger.

Some human skills will be commoditized.

But human beings will not.

We are unLLMable.