AI has eroded the value of specialization because, for many tasks, achieving the outcome of several years of experience now takes a $20 ChatGPT subscription.

If a decade ago it took me nine months to gain enough experience to ship a single prototype, now it takes just one week to build a state-of-the-art platform ready to be shipped — a project once... See more

If we are to move beyond solutions that replicate the status quo in our institutions and our thinking, we will have to stretch what we think of as “intelligent” or creative beyond the sort of regurgitation that large language models are now able to do with remarkable ease.

If you have a business intelligence bot that you're using to check in on your company's performance, it won't matter whether the relevant numbers are in Excel or Google Sheets or a Pandas dataframe or a Postgres database; if the tool is smart enough, it will know how to convert your request into the appropriate query and get an answer. And that... See more