Becoming unLLMable

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

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

what do you believe will lead to human flourishing?

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

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.

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.

Technology doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

We respond to technology.

I’ve personally felt this shift.

One of the litmus tests I use before releasing any work is—is ... See more

Expectation:

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

Reality:

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

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

the term AI is a huge disservice and collective intelligence is a far more accurate term.

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.

Once I saw that, I couldn’t unsee it.