future with ai
There is a school of thought that believes humans were brought into this universe to create. To live and struggle and love and sin and pay all of the costs required to create new things. The reason we are here, this belief, is precisely to experience the limitations and frictions that God cannot. We are here to pay the cost.
Packy McCormick • Costless Sacrifice
If we automate everything away, somebody still needs to make decisions about what we’re doing. In the end, when labor compresses, more of the job is judgment from the top of the pyramid.
Sari Azout • Every Job Will Become an Art or Die
Instead of faking the form, they are emulating the essence : create something unique and true to you, something that only you have earned. Something different
Packy McCormick • The Great Differentiation
When laptop jobs join stable single-earner households and good customer service in the pantheon of distant, pleasant memories of the economic past, I doubt most will celebrate their newfound ability to think rather than work. After all, the educational system that gave rise to—and then punished—Cluely is the same educational system that teaches... See more
Economic Nihilism
The good news is: you don’t need to play this game. You can make yourself pay a cost and you will be rewarded: externally, maybe. Internally, for sure. Eternally, I think so.
Packy McCormick • Costless Sacrifice
Like, what does the number of Claude Code GitHub Commits signify? What does the number of words written by an LLM signify? What do thousands of applications for every single low-wage job signify?
If they cost nothing, they signify nothing.
If they cost nothing, they signify nothing.