Navigating the crazy AI world
The critical dividing line in our economy is no longer simply education or specialization, but rather agency itself: the raw determination to make things happen without waiting for permission.
Agency Is Eating the World
Expectation:
AI will reduce our workload, giving us more leisure time.
Reality:
AI expands what's possible —raising expectations, and creating more work
AI will reduce our workload, giving us more leisure time.
Reality:
AI expands what's possible —raising expectations, and creating more work
Sari Azout • Becoming unLLMable
And look AI is useful. There are 1 billion essays approx about how useful it is (including mine). But my biggest gripe with relying on AI to do something creative—and here I mean, like, literally writing an essay for you, or doing your homework for you, or drawing something for you—is that you’re accepting the map as the territory. You are no longe... See more
{D} 141: What did you learn about yourself today?
You don't need to learn any new hard skills to manage your AI intern. You just need to transfer over the same soft skills you've developed over your life collaborating with people. And, like any good working relationship, success comes down to the basics: clear communication, iterative feedback, shared context, and understanding your partner's stre... See more
lex.page • Writing With AI
... See moreWhat it is like to be us, in our full humanity—this isn’t out there in the interwebs. It isn’t stored in any archive, and the neural networks cannot be inward with what it feels like to be you, right now, looking at these words, looking away from these words to think about your life and our lives, turning from all this to your day and to what you w
Managers of humans need to craft a vision that is articulate, specific, concise, and rooted in a clear purpose. Model managers will need that same ability.
The better articulated your vision is, the more likely the model is going to be to carry it out appropriately.
The better articulated your vision is, the more likely the model is going to be to carry it out appropriately.
Dan Shipper • The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy
If you're an expert in anything—law, medicine, energy, construction, agriculture, you name it—the opportunity has never been clearer: take your subject-matter expertise, combine it with the increasingly powerful capabilities of AI, and build a tool that helps you achieve your goals. And these tools, also known as AI wrappers, have become tidy busin... See more