The more I use AI, the more I find it’s great for anything trivial and uninspired. Need help with some predictable glue code? AI. Need help with something insightful and new to the world? Not AI. Need help with an important task that’s been done a 1000 times? AI with scrutiny. Need to invent something new to the world and core to your business? Probably not AI.
I'm struggling to imagine the sort of person who struggles with predictable glue code that I would trust with anything more important than that, with or without AI...
Okay. I'm saying if it were a struggle for you to walk 15 miles to work, I wouldn't hire you to do a job that requires a lot of walking just because cars exist.
I don't think the now or never thinking is healthy, but I certainly understand the motivation. I myself have never really fit into a career path climbing the corporate ladder, and entrepreneurship is a skill that takes time to develop. When you're oscillating between stability and bleeding money, it's natural to want to go all in on an opportunity when it presents itself.
Related: I enjoyed the 2021 Netflix movie The Dig, which is about excavating a Viking longboat beneath a mound in a farmer’s field & uncovering the well known Sutton Hoo treasure.
For those who remember Digg, the recently relaunched a new version and shut it down almost immediately. They were getting hammered with AI bots when it was realized the Digg apparently still has good SEO. The explain it right on homepage.
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