alt Hacker News > A 16-year-old with no credentials and no capital could just do things. The world of bits offered the freedom to build without being drowned in arbitrary constraints, in a way that didn’t require assembling vast capital or prestige or connections, where your creativity and work could speak for itself, and you had agency.
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The irony is that we've just shifted the complexity. Anyone can make something now, but since everyone is making things, now you need to compete on reach/distribution more aggressively. The new "capital" is social media juice and pre-AI rep. Same problem, different skin.
> your creativity and work could speak for itself
Including speaking to humans/bots with more resources to monetize said work.
> you had agency
Distribution is also helpful for revenue generation.
Re-read the last paragraph of TFA.
I didn't realize tokens were free!
Jokes aside, this is just a different flavor of the same promise we see with each new technology, and 9/10 times it just ends in worse professional environments.
This is so untrue - prestige and connections matter even more, now that work is being commoditised. no?
The point is it won’t be if these new models stay locked to the public.