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100 sats \ 6 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15h \ parent \ on: You are not smart enough to make it. Neither am I. - David Shapiro AI

The killer app in software is almost always that what empowers humans, not what replaces them.

Or what empowers some humans to replace their reliance on other humans hahaha

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 15h

I'm having a hard time to think of an example where it actually worked out like that.

153 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 15h

Oh, all kinds. Mechanization reduced our reliance on human farmworkers, for example.

Of course, those former farmworkers went on to find other things to do.

I always tell people worried about "AI taking jobs" is to simply ask the question, "In an age of AI, what can humans do to continue bringing value to each other." That's how you will figure out what the jobs are in the AI age.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 15h

My nephew thanked me the other day for recommending a book to him over 15 years ago. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin. He told me the mindset described in that book has helped him excel at every job he's had.

Related to AI, before it was what it is now I thought that any task that could be scripted would be and I better focus on hard problems. That is still the case now. Do the hard things.

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 15h

Spell check

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 15h

Maybe, but doesnt that mean that the reviewer could focus more on things like coherence instead of spelling?

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 15h

Sure, but before spell check you would have someone review your writing for spelling mistakes. I'm old enough to remember having people read my papers for spelling errors. Yeah, I'm that old.