This is a really thoughtful reflection. I didn’t intend to watch the whole thing, but I ended up doing it anyway.
AI is like playing a hard game you can’t beat with cheat codes on. It’s amazing at first, but it becomes boring very quickly.
But worse than that, it does something to your brain that ruins the game. If you turn the cheat codes off, you become acutely aware that you’re now struggling unnecessarily. You can’t forget how easy it was, but you don’t want it to be that easy because it takes all the fun out of it, but now the inability to unsee what you’ve seen creates a tension that causes you to lose interest in even continuing to play.
The magic is gone. You’ve broken the spell.
AI is doing this to life. And the societal consequences are going to be enormous.
I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.