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Becoming unLLMable
I saw someone define modern art as:
Modern art = You could do that + Yeah, but you didn’t
You know the feeling—you see a plain black square painting that goes for $80 million at an art auction and you think, Come on. I could’ve done that.
But you didn’t.
They did.
They knew what was worth doing, when, and how to frame it so it mattered.
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we try to measure what we value.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
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YES - avoid the latter
We worry AI will replace writers. But have you seen most of what’s online? Half the internet is engagement farmers on LinkedIn selling you 5 steps to 10x your productivity by 6am.
You can see this mindset has infected everything:
• We join Twitter for the love of conversation—come out obsessed with likes.
• We pursue research for discovery—then get tr
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Technology is not our rival.
It is simply applied human knowledge
It is simply applied human knowledge
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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. Heck it’s not even intelligence—it’s that elusive, intangible, sublime quality—call it taste, imagination, creativity, courage, judgment, intuition, agency.
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
Said differently, we try to measure what we value.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
But we inevitably end up valuing what we measure.
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
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.
Humans vs Pencils.
Humans vs. Calculators
Humans vs. Maps
Technology is not our rival.
It is simply applied human knowledge.
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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.
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
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.