Becoming unLLMable

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.

Said differently, we try to measure what we value.

But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.

But fearing that AI will replace us is like being afraid that our children will replace us. Yes they will replace us, because that's why we created them. And also, they depend on us, and they are us, and they can improve us. And free us from becoming machines, so that we can reclaim the things that machines can’t touch.

Technology is not our rival.

It is simply applied human knowledge

Said differently, we try to measure what we value.

But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.

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.

Here’s my grand theory for why we have no time:

Technology doesn’t just make old tasks easier —it creates entirely new standards.

Before washing machines, families washed clothes maybe twice a year.

After that, weekly laundry became the norm.

Instead, I was caught in a paradox: the amount of things that are now possible and exciting and worth exploring because of AI greatly exceeds the amount of time I save using AI.

The debate between "Humans vs AI" is as nonsensical as:

Humans vs Pencils.

Humans vs. Calculators

Humans vs. Maps

Technology is not our rival.

It is simply applied human knowledge.