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colinhbyesterday at 11:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Seems like in current cultural and economic context, short term extraction is what we’re going to do

> In short, the indiscriminate use of powerful solution-extraction tools can achieve the immediate short-term goal of solving problems at hand, but at the cost of sustaining the ecosystem for the next wave of progress, or in understanding the progress already obtained.


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mizzaotoday at 3:15 AM

Is there an analogy here to the phenomenon that senior {engineers, designers, PMs} are now able to be insanely productive with AI, but it's also very hard to train junior folks to develop the sense of judgment that senior folks have?

CamperBob2yesterday at 11:23 PM

The "ecosystem" is dead. Tao should be thinking about what will replace it. I don't understand why he's taking this tack.

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